Quotes about Existence

Trailing clouds of Glory do we come, from God, who is our home...

Since agape love is sacrificial love, and since it needs no reciprocation, the love of God constrains our natural reactions which cause so many of our conflicts. To love is to be set free. To love is to act as an agent of the Holy Spirit and not react to circumstances and people. To love is to enter a place of existence which causes us to be unshackled from the fears and frustrations which dominate this world.

Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token

Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.

Unbelief about the existence and personality of Satan has often proved the first step to unbelief about God.

I've nothing, am nothing, shall be nothing, and yet I take nothing.

If anyone was ever cognizant of the need and function of 'litanies', it was Kafka.

Any life is laughable if one knows it well enough. It is something serious and terrible if one knows it even better.

Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.

If life is not a celebration, why remember it ? If life --- mine or that of my fellow man --- is not an offering to the other, what are we doing on this earth?

It was a destructive novel of acquired ideas. To finally wake up in a state of creative anguish, to lose oneself in order to find oneself again, to sleep in the arms of a beautiful student whose name one didn't know, to fall back to sleep over a love poem-that was called existence. The harmonics of artistic creation, of fertile sensibility, of anticipated events-history in movement-that was called a privilege.

I was nothing but a body. Perhaps even less: a famished stomach. The stomach alone was measuring time.