Quotes About Existence

If you place [your bet] with God, you lose nothing, even if it turns out that God does not exist. But if you place it against God, and you are wrong and God does exist, you lose everything.

Practicing mutual aid is the surest means for giving each other and to all the greatest safety, the best guarantee of existence and progress, bodily, intellectual and moral.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.

Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

But the LORD God called out to the man, “Where are you?”

So Adam lived a total of 930 years, and then he died.

God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ëI AM has sent me to you.í”

If this is how You are going to treat me, please kill me right now—if I have found favor in Your eyes—and let me not see my own wretchedness.”

Once more Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Ah, who can live unless God has ordained it?

of any beast that is on the earth or bird that flies in the air,

You were shown these things so that you would know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides Him.

Behold, to the LORD your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, and the earth and everything in it.

See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.

Then he begged me, ëStand over me and kill me, for agony has seized me, but my life still lingers.í

And they answered the king, “As for the man who consumed us and plotted against us to exterminate us from existing within any border of Israel,

You alone are the LORD. You created the heavens, the highest heavens with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to all things, and the host of heaven worships You.

“Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give up all he owns in exchange for his life.

After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.

And this is what he said:

“May the day of my birth perish, and the night it was said, ëA boy is conceived.í

If only that day had turned to darkness! May God above disregard it; may no light shine upon it.

Why did I not perish at birth; why did I not die as I came from the womb?