Quotes About Existence

To believe in time is to believe in change and vice versa. Those who claim that time does not exist have no idea what they are talking about, they are the disbelievers of change.

To exist is not a choice, but a gift. Living to your full potential is a personal choice you must make after finding your true Self.

Using the psychological language—Some people are less rational than others, because they are caught up in BEING instead of focusing in BECOMING too. Time is continuous.

We all love being in heaven, but no one is ready to leave the world just yet.

We are always looking for supernatural beings in the universe, forgetting that we are part of these supernatural phenomena. We are the inner souls and not the corporeal beings.

We are one with the angels, even though you claim that you are just a mere mortal.

We have to thank our mother Eve. Without her, we wouldn't be here enjoying life.

We start growing whenever we become aware of our existence and surroundings.

We try so hard to create God in our image, instead of accepting the reality, that God is everything.

What benefit will I gain from knowing the clockwise and counter-clockwise phenomena? Either way, they boil down to nothing, or will eventually cancel each other out.

What kind of God would wait for billions of years before sending someone in the world to be killed for the sins of the people?

You are not a god, but part of the Most High.

Your mind will still work even when you pretend you were sleeping. Thought, like consciousness, will never cease to exist.

Picture or no picture, people will keep killing each other using methods old and new—day after day, year after year, centuries of killing—until one way or another we're all dead, and all the guns and cameras of the world are just so much garbage lying in the dirt.

La singularidad es parte de la creación de Dios.

Twentieth-century man needs to be reminded at times that work is not the result of the Fall. Man was made to work, because the God who made him was a "working God." Man was made to be creative, with his mind and his hands. Work is part of the dignity of his existence. —Sinclair Ferguson

like stars and starstuff born to live, to blaze, and die.

To say "beyond the mountain," and to mean it, to mean, simply, beyond everything for which the mountain stands, of which it signifies the being. Somewhere, if only she could see it, there was neither nothing nor anything. And there, just there, that was the last reality.

La verdad es como una manta que nos deja los pies fríos. Ya puede uno tirar de ella hacia sí en todos los sentidos, que nunca nos cubrirá del todo. Sacudidla, tirad de ella, mas nunca será suficiente. Desde el día en que se viene al mundo, llorando, a aquel a quien se le entrega, agonizante, no puede hacer más que cubrirse con ella la cabeza y gemir, llorar o aullar.

The church is not simply a religious body looking for a safe place to do its own thing within a wider political or social world. The church is neither more nor less than people who bear witness, by their very existence and in particular their holiness and their unity (Colossians 3), that Jesus is the world's true lord, ridiculous or even scandalous though this may seem.

The resurrection declared that Jesus was not the ordinary sort of political king, a rebel leader, that some had supposed. He was the leader of a far larger, more radical revolution than anyone had ever supposed. He was inaugurating a whole new world, a new creation, a new way of being human. He was forging a way into a new cosmos, a new era, a form of existence hinted at all along but never before unveiled.

The great monotheistic faiths declare, in full view of the apparently contrary evidence, that the present world of space, time, and matter always was and still is the good creation of a good God.

The old idea that the goal of Christian existence is simply "going to heaven" doesn't, in fact, do very much to stimulate the fully fledged virtue we find advocated in the New Testament.

To begin with, you have to grasp the fact that Christian virtue isn't about you—your happiness, your fulfillment, your self-realization. It's about God and God's kingdom, and your discovery of a genuine human existence by the paradoxical route—the route God himself took in Jesus Christ!—of giving yourself away, of generous love which constantly refuses to take center stage.