Quotes about Existence
You cannot be a man of faith and live in a day. You do not live in a day if you are a man of faith.
- G Campbell Morgan
The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.
- Henry David Thoreau
How do I know that there is a God? In the same way that I know, on looking at the sand, when a man or beast has crossed the desert - by His footprints in the world around me.
- Henry Parry Liddon
Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.
- Henry Ward Beecher
And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living!
- Tertullian
Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.
- Tertullian
I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Man is closer to God according to his existence in grace than he is according to his existence in nature.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
God is not related to creatures as though belonging to a different "genus," but as transcending every "genus," and as the principle of all "genera."
- St. Thomas Aquinas
It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
There must be must be a first mover existing above all — and this we call God.
- St. Thomas Aquinas