Quotes about Existence

If you need something to worship, then worship life—all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!

Because we cannot imagine a thing, that doesn't exclude it from reality.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

History is God's love story. There is no event in space or time unrelated to the Jesus story, and there is no metaphor in existence unrelated to Jesus.

God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed from a life of human kindness to one which was more akin to the rude existence of a wild beast.

The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.

God was alive when this universe exploded into existence. He was alive when Socrates drank his poison. He was the living God when William Bradford governed Plymouth Colony. He was the living God in 1966 when Thomas Altizer proclaimed him dead and Time magazine absolutely absurdly put it on the front cover.

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

I've had experiences in my life that leave no doubt in my mind about the fact that God exists. I'm quite willing to debate people who don't think so because I want them to explain to me how did our solar system get so organized and how is the universe so complex and yet well-organized that we can predict 70 years hence when a comet is coming?

a mouth which does not confess disproves the existence of a heart that believes. The soul cannot be God's and the life not God's at the same time. The soul cannot be recreated and the life remain unchanged.

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.