Quotes about Existence

But the problem becomes even worse. For, regardless of immortality, if there is no God, then there is no objective standard of right and wrong. All we're confronted with is, in Sartre's words, "the bare, valueless fact of existence." Moral values are either just expressions of personal taste or the by-products of biological evolution and social conditioning.

Everything alive is part of each of us, and many things which do not move as we move are part of us. The sun is part of us, the earth, the sky, the stars, the rivers, and the oceans. All things are part of us, and we have come here to enjoy them and to thank God for them.

Live, for this is the time of your life.

Be, beget, begone.

Illness must be considered to be as natural as health.

I want time in which to walk quietly over the earth, among uncrazed men. I want time in which to build a house, inhabit it, create a past with meaning. I want time in which to seek and find love. I want time. I want to be unhurried, uncaught. I want time in which to sleep and waken, in which to dream the truth of my being on earth. Time.

Man is an enigma whose solution can be found only in God.

Religion is inconceivable apart from revelation, and revelation cannot occur apart from the existence of a spiritual world above and behind this visible world, a spiritual world in communion with the visible world.

Ethical culture must be a philosophy of revelation or it cannot exist.

Augustine speaks of a Christianity which has existed since the beginning of the human race,

Philosophy arose out of religion,

If the moral law or the ideal good indeed exists outside of us, then it must be grounded in and be one with the Godhead.