Quotes about Existence
Nothing is more vital than prayer in Christian existence, and few things are more vulnerable to neglect.
— John Piper
Prayer offered without faith by a person that doesn't truly believe God exists will not be effective. Sin in our lives that we refuse to confess will also render our prayers ineffective.
— Anne Graham Lotz
Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence.
— Henri Nouwen
Man, made in the image of God, has a purpose - to be in relationship to God, who is there. Man forgets his purpose and thus he forgets who he is and what life means.
— Francis Schaeffer
That is our calling: to show that there is a reality in personal relationship, and not just words about it.
— Francis Schaeffer
All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.
— Soren Kierkegaard
I know you will remember this — that nothing good ever ends. If it did, there would be no people in the world — no life at all, anywhere. And the world is full of people and full of wonderful life.
— William Saroyan
We shall say without hesitation that the atheist who is moved by love is moved by the Spirit of God; an atheist who lives by love is saved by his faith in the God whose existence (under that name) he denies.
— William Temple
Truths that wake, to perish never.
— William Wordsworth
Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God, who is our home.
— William Wordsworth
But trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home.
— William Wordsworth