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Quotes About Existence

God is the explanation of all things.
~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
We should be a mirror of being: we are God in miniature.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I almost do not exist now and I know it; God knows what lives in me in place of me.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer.
~ Giacomo Casanova
If the bible proves the existence of God, then Action Comics prove the existence of Superman.
~ Graham Kendall
Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly conceivable that He may have finished it and then turned it over to lesser gods to operate.
~ H. L. Mencken
God to me is the universe unfolding.
~ Jan Phillips
The seeds of death get lost in the mess that God made us.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Geometry existed before the creation. It is co-eternal with the mind of God...Geometry provided God with a model for the Creation.
~ Johannes Kepler
Given the world that he created, it would be an impiety against God to believe in him.
~ John Banville
I live on the other side of Copernicus and Galileo; I can no longer conceive of God as sort of above the sky, looking down and keeping record books.
~ John Shelby Spong
We are looked upon by God as though we were in eternity; God dwells in eternity, and does not view things as we do.
~ Joseph Smith, Jr.
God dwells within me. As me.
~ Julia Roberts
The fact of God is necessary for the fact of man. Think God away and man has no ground of existence.
~ A.W. Tozer
A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.
~ Jeremy Taylor
My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That's God. Everything is God. I'm a child of that.
~ Alice Walker
That God has managed to survive the inanities of the religions that do Him homage is truly a miraculous proof of His existence.
~ Ben Hecht
The difficulty is old, but none the less real. An omnipotent being who created a world containing evil not due to sin must Himself be at least partially evil.
~ Bertrand Russell
I believe in God, but I'm not too clear on the other details.
~ Bill Veeck
Whether you call the principle of existence "God," "matter," "energy," or anything else you like, you have created nothing; you have merely changed a symbol. Eastern and Western Thinking, 1938
~ Carl Jung
Where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die.
~ Charles Bukowski
If god really wanted people to be free of [wicked thoughts], he should have taken more care to invent a different species.
~ Christopher Hitchens
No one knows the nature of God, or even if God exists. In a sense, all of our religions are literary works of the imagination.
~ Alan Lightman
To believe in God is not hard. Inquisitors, Byron and Arakcheev believed in Him. No, believe in man!
~ Anton Chekhov