Quotes about Existence
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
— Joseph Addison
True benevolence, or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathises with the distress of every creature capable of sensation
— Joseph Addison
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
— Joseph Campbell
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
— Joseph Campbell
All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
— Joseph Campbell
Before we can know God and understand his great plan it is first necessary for us to believe that he exists and that he rewards all who diligently seek him.
— Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Self is the soul minus God.
— Eugene Peterson
There is a large, leisurely center to existence where God must be deeply pondered, lovingly believed.
— Eugene Peterson
The bawling of babies, always in a way Inappropriate - why should the love and innocent Greet existence with wails? - is proof that not all Is well. Dreams and deliveries never quite mesh.
— Eugene Peterson
The Word was first, the Word present to God, God present to the Word. The Word was God, in readiness for God from day one. Everything was created through him; nothing—not one thing!— came into being without him. What came into existence was Life, and the Life was Light to live by. The Life-Light blazed out of the darkness; the darkness couldn't put it out.
— Eugene Peterson
To be human is to be in trouble.
— Eugene Peterson
The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
— William James