Quotes About Existence

In eternity, there is no time for anything to happen, yet everything that has a beginning, has an end in time.

Do you know why God loves the world? Because the world is not apart from God and it would be impossible for God to not love himself.

Think of it… not a moment is the same from one second to the next. And that moment will never come again. This is what the mind perceives of God… endless change (time) within changelessness (eternity).

God is the cause that is 'cause of itself' (essence) and the Universe is the effect existing within the cause (existence). Essence involves existence.

Our author envisions reality in terms of an eternal realm presently invisible to our earthly senses, and a temporary realm we can now see and touch but that will soon pass away.

The invisible realities predated the visible universe which the invisible God spoke into being by his word.

Man maketh a death which Nature never made.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Where the Light falls, death falls; And in the darkness comes the Light.

For death, Now I know, is that first breath Which our souls draw when we enter Life, which is of all life center.

Ye suffer from yourselves. None else compels, None other holds you that ye live and die, And whirl upon the wheel, and hug and kiss Its spokes of agony, Its tire of tears, its nave of nothingness.

By Me the whole vast Universe of things Is spread abroad;—by Me, the Unmanifest! In Me are all existences contained; Not I in them! Yet they are not contained, Those visible things! Receive and strive to embrace The mystery majestical! My Being— Creating all, sustaining all—still dwells Outside of all! See! as the shoreless airs Move in the measureless space, but are not space, [And space were space without the moving airs]; So all things are in Me, but are not I.

If any teach NIRVÂNA is to cease, Say unto such they lie. If any teach NIRVÂNA is to live, Say unto such they err.

The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop.

To think blankness rouses certain terror and in the feeling the sudden sense of self responding down to the smallest unaided particle of its existence as answer to the blankness of sure nonexistence

Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world.

The few little years we spend on earth are only the first scene in a Divine Drama that extends into Eternity.

The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?

But his greatest work, already begun in the opening years of his reign, was the recodification of Roman law. In a series of volumes, collectively known as the Codex Justinianus, the primary rules of social existence as defined by Roman law were reformulated in accordance with the Christian ethic.

How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is often far from a true measure of your days of living .

It is those who have compassion for all life who will best safeguard the life of man. Those who become aroused only when man is endangered become aroused too late. We cannot make the world uninhabitable for other forms of life and have it habitable for ourselves. It is the conservationist who is concerned with the welfare of all the land and life of the country, who, in the end, will do most to maintain the world as a fit place for human existence.

Birth and death are an event; however, between that, life is a process.

Birth is a start, and death is its end and between birth and death is a journey of life; travel with peace and love before it ends.

Every day in the world is someone's Birthday and someone's Deathday.