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Quotes About Existence

What can be seen on earth points to neither the total absence nor the obvious presence of divinity, but to the presence of a hidden God. Everything bears this mark.
~ Blaise Pascal
If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
More consequences for thought and action follow the affirmation or denial of God than from answering any other basic question.
~ Mortimer Adler
This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.
~ Golda Meir
With the disappearance of God the Ego moves forward to become the sole divinity.
~ Dorothee Solle
If there is a God, his plan is very similar to someone not having a plan.
~ Eddie Izzard
When nothing was, then God was there, Had nothing been God would have been; My being has defeated me, Had I not been, what would have been.
~ Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
If God does not exist, then everything is permissible.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sure God's all powerful, but does he have lips?
~ Layne Staley
All living creatures are sparks from the radiation of God's brilliance, emerging from God like the rays of the sun.
~ Hildegard of Bingen
God is either everything, or He is nothing.
~ Bill W.
The world is a living image of God.
~ Tommaso Campanella
I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.
~ Thomas A. Edison
And indeed we believe you [God] to be something than which a greater cannot be conceived.
~ Anselm of Canterbury
Gagarin flew into space, but didn't see any god there.
~ Nikita Khrushchev
It is crazy to postulate a trillion (causally unconnected) universes to explain the features of one universe, when postulating one entity (God) will do the job.
~ Richard Swinburne
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
~ Jules Renard
There is nothing but God's grace. We walk upon it; we breathe it; we live and die by it; it makes the nails and axles of the universe.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.
~ Alfred the Great
But time is yet another of God's creations, and as such, it has a life of its own.
~ Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
We do not know what God is. God Himself does not know what He is because He is not anything. Literally God is not, because He transcends being.
~ Johannes Scotus Eriugena
God does not exist to make a big deal out of us. We exist to make a big deal out of him. It's not about you. It's not about me. It's all about him.
~ Max Lucado
What is the will of God? On earth as it is in heaven. If it doesn't exist there, it's not supposed to exist here. If it does exist there, it's supposed to exist here.
~ Bill Johnson