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Quotes About Existence

The chicken came first - God would look silly sitting on an egg.
~ Abraham Maslow
God is the shortest distance from zero to infinity.
~ Alfred Jarry
I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God's.
~ Byron Katie
If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can't lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
~ Lucretius
God is the "mysterium tremendum," that appears and overthrows, but he is also the mystery of the self-evident, nearer to me than my I.
~ Martin Buber
God alone is real, and all else is illusion.
~ Meher Baba
God is the King. In him exists all legal authority
~ Orson Pratt
Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
~ Ram Dass
In the course of time one does not feel even the existence of God. After attaining enlightenment one sees that gods and deities are all Maya.
~ Sarada Devi
Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
~ Douglas Adams
It makes sense that there is no sense without God.
~ Edith Schaeffer
Existentialism isn't so atheistic that it wears itself out showing that God doesn't exist. Rather, it declares that even if God did exist, that would change nothing.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
My friends, God is necessary for me if only because he is the one being who can be loved eternally.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
I would rather believe that God did not exist than believe that he was indifferent.
~ George Sand
All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact
~ Herbert Simon
For God is himself the Being of all Beings, and we are as gods in him, through whom he revealeth himself.
~ Jakob Bohme
We're all in a test. With or without God, we're in a test.
~ John Henrik Clarke
It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
~ H. L. Mencken
Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.
~ Honore de Balzac
Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.
~ Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing
God does not play dice [with the universe]. [Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.]
~ Albert Einstein
We were created for the purpose of giving God's invisible character a glimpse of visibility.
~ Beth Moore
God, I'm glad I'm not me.
~ Bob Dylan
I don't believe there is a God. I know there is a God.
~ Carl Jung