Quotes about Existence

It is true that God knows Himself in all the things that exist. He sees them, and it is because He sees them that they exist. It is because He loves them that they are good. His love in them is their intrinsic goodness. The value He sees in them is their value. In so far as He sees and loves them, all things reflect Him.

My advice to an ordinary religious man, supposing anyone were to desire my advice on this point, would be to avoid all arguments about religion, and especially about the existence of God.

We know by fresh discovery, the deep reality that is our concrete existence here and now and in the depths of that reality we receive from the Father light, truth, wisdom and peace.

To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us—and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love, every moment of existence is a grace

How could this fatuous, emotional thing be without beginning and without end, the creator of all? I had taken the dead letter of Scripture at its very deadest, and it had killed me, according to the saying of St. Paul: The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life

I have the immense joy of being man, a member of a race in which God Himself became incarnate.

Perhaps the book of life, in the end, is the book of what one has lived and if one has lived nothing, he is not in the book of life.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world