Quotes about Existence
Why do you pray? he asked me, after a moment. Why did I pray? A strange question. Why did I live? Why did I breathe?
— Elie Wiesel
St. Augustine said, The very pleasures of human life men acquire by difficulties. There are times when the entire arrangement of our existence is disrupted and we long then for just one ordinary day - seeing our ordinary life as greatly desirable, even wonderful, in the light of the terrible disruption that has taken place. Difficulty opens our eyes to pleasures we had taken for granted.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Don't waste your most important resource—your life.
— Elizabeth George
Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
One God, one law, one element,And one far-off divine event,To which the whole creation moves.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Flower in the crannied wall,I pluck you out of the crannies,I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,Little flower—but if I could understandWhat you are, root and all, and all in all,I should know what God and man is.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Question 1: What is the chief end of man? This most basic question confronts each of us. Why am I here? What is the reason for my existence? What is the purpose of my life? The catechism on the basis of 1 Corinthians 10:31 and Psalm 73:25 provides the familiar answer. "Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever.
— Alistair Begg
If my belief in other minds is rational, so is my belief in God.
— Alvin Plantinga
God creates a world containing evil and has a good reason for doing so.
— Alvin Plantinga
Belief in the existence of God is in the same boat as belief in other minds, the past, and perceptual objects; in each case God has so constructed us that in the right circumstances we form the belief in question.
— Alvin Plantinga
How could there be truths totally independent of minds or persons?... How could the things that are in fact true or false—propositions, let's say—exist in serene and majestic independence of persons and their means of apprehension? How could there be propositions no one has ever so much as grasped or thought of?
— Alvin Plantinga