Quotes About Existence

Will you still say, ëI am a god,í in the presence of those who slay you? You will be only a man, not a god, in the hands of those who wound you.

All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ëWhat have You done?í”

For as you drank on My holy mountain, so all the nations will drink continually. They will drink and gulp it down; they will be as if they had never existed.

You have made men like the fish of the sea, like creeping things that have no ruler.

Through Him all things were made, and without Him nothing was made that has been made.

For as the Father has life in Himself, so also He has granted the Son to have life in Himself.

So the Jews began to ask, “Will He kill Himself, since He says, ëWhere I am going, you cannot comeí?”

“Truly, truly, I tell you,” Jesus declared, “before Abraham was born, I am!”

I came from the Father and entered the world. In turn, I will leave the world and go to the Father.”

And now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence with the glory I had with You before the world existed.

Has not My hand made all these things?í

Nor is He served by human hands, as if He needed anything, because He Himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.

ëFor in Him we live and move and have our being.í As some of your own poets have said, ëWe are His offspring.í

As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the presence of God, in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not yet exist.

yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we exist. And there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we exist.

If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for human motives, what did I gain? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

Not all flesh is the same: Men have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another, and fish another.

There are also heavenly bodies and earthly bodies. But the splendor of the heavenly bodies is of one degree, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is of another.

The spiritual, however, was not first, but the natural, and then the spiritual.

As was the earthly man, so also are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven.

So while we are in this tent, we groan under our burdens, because we do not wish to be unclothed but clothed, so that our mortality may be swallowed up by life.

But if I go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me. So what shall I choose? I do not know.

But she who lives for pleasure is dead even while she is still alive.

But somewhere it is testified in these words: “What is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?