Quotes about Existence

No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'.

One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.

We're all God. I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine - and potentially evil.

What is god, what is not god, what is between man and god, who shall say?

[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

There is a crack in everything God has made.

God created man and then woman but the atheist created himself.

As the little boy said to the Sunday School teacher after being told the reason we are on Earth is to help others: "Then what are the others here for?"

Religion is the sense of comprehension of the totality of existence.

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

(Why flowers are so important to the main character) I need the reminder that God loves to make detailed and beautiful things, and that act of creation is itself a sufficient reason to make them. These flowers will live and die here, the majority of them never seen, even though a busy road is less than a mile away.