Quotes About Existence

I don't know what the universe is all about, but to me, nothing is gained by slapping a God sticker on it. It has never been a comfort to me to believe there's an all-seeing eye in the sky.

I believe that most of what was said of God was in reality said of that Spirit whose body is Earth.

In the absolute sense - kind of from the God's-eye view - God might feel like, "I made this thing that has all of that in it, all the horror and all the beauty."

Did I say the book of nature is a catechism? Yes, But, after it answers the first question with "God," nothing but questions follow.

I have just discovered something I have always known: we can no more escape from one another than we can escape from God.

How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.

God, or what have you, will not be found at the far end of a syllogism, no matter how brilliantly phrased or conceived.

I am here because God is there.

The religion of the atheist has a God-shaped blank at it's heart.

When belief in a god dies, the god dies.

Our spaceship is a tiny bubble in a glass of God.

I'm pretty sure there is no such thing as God.

The soul may be immortal because she is fitted to rise towards that which is neither born nor dies, towards that which exists substantially, necessarily, invariably, that is to say towards God.

To receive spiritual direction is to recognize that God does not solve our problems or answer all our questions, but leads us closer to the mystery of our existence where all questions cease.

It is not when I am going to meet him, but when I am just turning away and leaving him alone, that I discover what God is. I say, God. I am not sure that that is the name. You will know what I mean.

One puts into one's art what one has not been capable of putting into one's existence. It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.

Practically speaking, there are for each one of us two supreme realities -- God and the soul. The heavens and the earth will pass away. But the soul will still remain, face to face with God.

When you die, you are extinguished. From being you will be transformed to non-being. A god does not necessarily dwell among our capricious atoms.

I do like talking with friends about big concepts, you know, the stuff that will ruin a party. To me, the party hasn't begun until we're talking about the nonexistence of God.

I think there's probably a God-shaped hole in everybody's being. Even if God only exists in people's minds, He's still a force.

And I thought, there was no God, there was only what you wanted.

Beauty, real beauty, is something very grave. If there is a God, He must be partly that.

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discloses to me His existence. [Fr., L'impossibilite ou je suis de prouver que Dieu n'est pas, me decouvre son existence.]

God, that checkroom of our dreams.