Quotes about Existence
I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
— Walt Whitman
This equation of the impersonal plus time plus chance producing the total configuration of the universe and all that is in it, modern people hold by faith.
— Francis Schaeffer
God dwells in eternity but time dwells in God. He has already lived all our tomorrows as He has lived all our yesterdays.
— AW Tozer
I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.
— Albert Camus
If things are real, they're there all the time.
— CS Lewis
If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little.
— Anne Lamott
When humans experience something as powerful as a forest or a rainbow, it is not crazy to assign its existence to a Greater Intelligence.
— Anne Lamott
How alive am I willing to be?
— Anne Lamott
I understood immediately the thrill of seeing oneself in print. It provides some sort of primal verification: you are in print; therefore you exist.
— Anne Lamott
In many spiritual and wisdom paths, it is written that God created us to have company and to be God's loving eyes and hands on earth. But in certain African Christian catechisms it says that God created us because He thought we would like it.
— Anne Lamott
There really is only today, although luckily that is also the eternal now.
— Anne Lamott
We think we're humans having spiritual experiences, but we're really spirits having human experiences
— Anne Lamott