Quotes about Existence
We are torn out of our own existence and set down in the midst of the holy history of God on earth. There God dealt with us, and there he still deals with us, our needs and our sins, in judgment and grace.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
No one can speak of the beginning but the one who was in the beginning. Thus the Bible begins with God's free affirmation, free acknowledgment, free revelation of himself: In the beginning God created...
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If we would answer the question of the existence of the Evil then we would not be sinners, we could make something else responsible.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Life is not a thing, an essence, or a concept, but a person—more specifically, a particular and unique person.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
God is never in the world in any way except in his absolute transcendence of it.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
But because Jesus is the Christ, it has to be made clear from the beginning that his word is not a doctrine . Instead, it creates existence anew.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Without God, all seeing and perceiving of things and laws become abstraction, a separation from both origin and goal.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Love alone brings a human being to full awareness of personal existence. For it is in love alone that man finds room enough to be what he is.
- Dietrich von Hildebrand
Belief in God is an act of faith. But so is believing our existence is simply the result of chance.
- Eric Metaxas
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
- Epicurus
A room without books is like a life without meaning.
- Thomas Jefferson
God will have life to be real; we will be damned, but it shall be theatrical.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson