Quotes About Existence

I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.

The visible world is the invisible organization of energy.

Religion is the first thing and the last thing, and until a man has found God and been found by God, he begins at no beginning, he works to no end.

Religion made half of us afraid to die, and the other half afraid to live.

Religion is born out of questions, not answers.

Saying spirituality cannot exist without religion is like saying hamburgers cannot exist without McDonald's.

Nothing so tends to mask the face of God as religion; it can be a substitute for God himself.

Once again, only religion can answer the question of the purpose of life. One can hardly be wrong in concluding that the idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system.

I'm probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don't think anyone really knows. You'll either find out or not when you get there, until then there's no point thinking about it.

Angels transcend every religion, every philosophy, every creed. In fact Angels have no religion as we know it... Their existence precedes every religious system that has ever existed on Earth.

Maybe Hell ain't a place meant for us to Burn, maybe Earth is Hell and just a place for us to Learn.

Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist.

There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.

But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed?

Islam as a religion focuses primarily on the immutable aspects of life and existence, whereas a political system concerns only social aspects of our worldly life.

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.

Religion is not an experiment, it is an experience of life through which one is part of the cosmic adventure.

I think a lot of people really have religious overtones of having come from somewhere. I mean, even the whole concept of religion is kind of alien.

When all that's left of us is the pure untainted consciousness without form, we'll know what it means when the last human breath expires.

It's a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It's the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have everything to live for.

That which we cannot speak of is the one thing about whom and to whom we must never stop speaking.