Quotes about Existence

There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself. As if the Good Lord had nothing better to do than exist!

Spirit is the real and eternal matter is the unreal and the temporal.

Faith is the final triumph over incongruity the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence.

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by and turned to the infinite.

We are not human beings in search of a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings emersed in a human experience.

Life is neither a good nor an evil: it is a field for good and evil

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility.

Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.

If there is sin against life, it consists¦ in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.