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Quotes About Existence

God is so great, he does not even need to exist.
~ Victor Frederick Weisskopf
If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.
~ Voltaire
We exist within the question of God.
~ William Barrett
Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light. What else did Malebranche mean when he spoke of "seeing all things in God"? Existence is a mystery because the light of it is inexhaustible.
~ L. P. Jacks
You don't have to say that nature is aware of your existence, that God knows you are here. The camera gives you proof that you have lived at least once.
~ Lucas Samaras
God cannot be seen, but He can listened to and spoken to!
~ Martin Buber
In my breaking through...I transcend all creatures and am neither God nor creature...for in this breaking through I find that God and I are both the same.
~ Meister Eckhart
God is the word that speaks itself.
~ Meister Eckhart
LIVE. If you live, god will live with you. If you refuse to run his risks, he'll retreat to that distant heaven and be merely a subject for philosophical speculation.
~ Paulo Coelho
Joy is the sheer evidence of God.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
In God, I move and breathe and have my being.
~ Oprah Winfrey
To be known by God is the highest goal of human existence.
~ R. C. Sproul
If people think God is interesting, the onus is on them to show that there is anything there to talk about. Otherwise they should just shut up about it.
~ Richard Dawkins
One real thing is closer to God than all the diagrams in the world
~ Robert Farrar Capon
If there were a god, there would be no need for religion. If there were not a god, there would be no need for religion.
~ Ron Barrier
When we talk about GOD, we're like a school of fish, discussing the possible existence of the sea.
~ Rumi
You believe God is not there, but He is, Hidden in the secret of the divine mystery
~ Rumi
I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.
~ Saint Augustine
For me, I believe in God, God is real.
~ Spike Lee
What do I believe? I believe in God, if he exists.
~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Not only does God play dice with the world He does not let us see what He has rolled.
~ Stanislaw Lem
Is god omnipotent ? If he is, can he create a rock so heavy he can't lift it ?
~ Stephen Hawking
Now, I find that very difficult to reconcile with notions about a merciful God.
~ David Attenborough
Invoked or not invoked, the god is present.
~ Desiderius Erasmus