Quotes about Existence

The house appointed for all living.

Man is more than merely an animal to exist and propagate his species. His mind gives him capacity to search out the great truths in God's arrangement and this lifts him far above the other animal creation.

Well, I think the main message is there is more to your story. There is more than what happens between the crib and the grave, and that is what I am really trying to speak to, this idea that all of life is this life and that there is nothing more than what we see and experience right here on this earth.

It turns out that the God whose word will stand forever does not exist to insure our fantasies that we will not have to die as individuals or as a species. Such a God, moreover, does not invite us to presume we can comprehend God's creation.

Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.

Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every building has a builder. So it isn't irrational to take this simple logic a little further and say that nature must have had a Maker. It would be irrational to believe that it made itself.

There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

There is no possible source of evil except good.

There is nothing to find, only to realize. There is nothing to become, only to be. There is nothing to fear, only to love.

The surest law in the world is the Law of Compensation. Its Justice works continually. If you do a Service you get back a Service. If you do Nothing you get back Nothing. Mere existence is not Living. Into your twenty-four hours put Work and Play and Rest, but at no time be a Bystander.

Life is difficult. That blunt, three-word statement is an accurate ap praisal of our existence on this planet.