Quotes about Existence

Indeed, how can the mind by its own leading come to search out God's essence when it cannot even get to its own?

They who take it amiss that the world was not sooner created, may as well expostulate with God for not having made innumerable worlds.

Can we conceive that man was so placed in the earth as to be ignorant of his own origin, and of the origin of those things which he enjoyed?

Since men do not create their own life but obtain life precariously from another, it follows that God dwells in them.

For, quite clearly, the mighty gifts with which we are endowed are hardly from ourselves; indeed, our very being is nothing but subsistence in the one God.

Christ cannot be seen except in the spiritual life which the world does not possess. No

From the power of God we are naturally led to consider his eternity since that from which all other things derive their origin must necessarily be selfexistent and eternal.

Even the wicked themselves, therefore, are an example of the fact that some idea of God always exists in every human mind.

The question that preoccupied the Fathers was not to know if God existed or not - the existence of God was a "given" for nearly all men of this period, Christians or pagans. The question which tormented entire generations was rather: *how* he existed. And such a question had direct consequences as much for the Church as for man, since both were considered as 'images of God'.

Yesternight the sun went hence,And yet is here today.

He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.

My world's both parts, and 'o! Both parts must die.