Quotes about Existence
Christians recognize that our planet was uniquely designed and fine-tuned to support life - and that's putting it mildly. Our place in the universe is nothing less than a miracle.
- Eric Metaxas
God is to me the Great Unknown. I believe in Him, but I find Him not.
- Adoniram Judson
But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
- Aristotle
But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
- Aristotle
The men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence.
- Brennan Manning
As for women who were pretty, intelligent, strikingly sensual, the daughters of rich families—they would only have served to disrupt my carefully ordered existence
- Han Kang
Heaven is a state of mind, not a location, since Spirit is everywhere and in everything.
- Wayne Dyer
I wouldn't have been born if my parents had stayed in China. Which is kind of funny. But it also just kind of fills me with this existential dread.
- Bowen Yang
Question with boldness even the existance of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
- Thomas Jefferson
In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
- Thomas Merton
God created man, and man returned the favor.
- Thomas Merton
Every child born in the world must be considered as deriving its existence from God. The world is this new to him as it was to the first that existed, and his natural right in it is of the same kind.
- Thomas Paine