Quotes about Existence

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.

The very simple meaning of what Moses says, therefore, is this: everything that is, was created by God.

In all of Holy Writ we find not a single instance of adoration of the patriarchs, the prophets, and apostles - much less of St. George and St. Barbara, who probably never existed, and of the other saints who created by the pope, like St. Francis and St. Dominic, about whom no one knows anything with certainty. But even if we were to concede that they were full of grace, they would still be unable to impart any of it to me.

Thus Augustine says: "We know that we owe our existence to His goodness. We know that we are creatures because of the kindness of God, not because of merit. For it has pleased God that no one should glory except in the Lord.

Spirit is the real and eternal matter is the unreal and temporal.

Resurrection. Spiritualization of thought; a new and higher idea of immortality, or spiritual existence; material belief yielding to spiritual understanding. (SH 593:9)

We are all born for love... it is the principle existence and it's only end.

Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy

Love is the river of life in the world.

But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.