Quotes about Existence
Man, made in the image of God, has a purpose - to be in relationship to God, who is there. Man forgets his purpose and thus he forgets who he is and what life means.
— Francis Schaeffer
That is our calling: to show that there is a reality in personal relationship, and not just words about it.
— Francis Schaeffer
All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.
— Soren Kierkegaard
I know you will remember this — that nothing good ever ends. If it did, there would be no people in the world — no life at all, anywhere. And the world is full of people and full of wonderful life.
— William Saroyan
We shall say without hesitation that the atheist who is moved by love is moved by the Spirit of God; an atheist who lives by love is saved by his faith in the God whose existence (under that name) he denies.
— William Temple
Truths that wake, to perish never.
— William Wordsworth
Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God, who is our home.
— William Wordsworth
But trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home.
— William Wordsworth
Trailing clouds of Glory do we come, from God, who is our home...
— William Wordsworth
Since agape love is sacrificial love, and since it needs no reciprocation, the love of God constrains our natural reactions which cause so many of our conflicts. To love is to be set free. To love is to act as an agent of the Holy Spirit and not react to circumstances and people. To love is to enter a place of existence which causes us to be unshackled from the fears and frustrations which dominate this world.
— David Yonggi Cho
Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token
— Elbert Hubbard
Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson