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“It is astonishing that any man can forbear enquiring seriously whether there is a God; whether God is just; whether this life is the only state of existence.”

Men States Life Is Existence This Life Astonishing

Book:Sermons

Source: Sermons

“To make sure that my blasphemy is thoroughly expressed, I hereby state my opinion that the notion of a god is a basic superstition, that there is no evidence for the existence of any god(s), that devils, demons, angels and saints are myths, that there is no life after death, heaven nor hell, that the Pope is a dangerous, bigoted, medieval dinosaur, and that the Holy Ghost is a comic-book character worthy of laughter and derision.”

“In God alone, essence (what He is) and existence (that he is) coincide.”

Existence Essence

Author:Avicenna

“In fact, the libertarian would reason that the fact that human nature is a mixture of both good and evil provides its own particular argument in his favor. For if man is such a mixture, then the best societal framework is surely one in which evil is discouraged and the good encouraged. The libertarian maintains that the existence of the State apparatus provides a ready, swift channel for the exercise of evil, since the rulers of the State are thereby legitimated and can wield compulsion in ways that no one else is permitted to do.”

Ifs Men Way Humans States Reason Facts Evil Existence Human Nature Particular Ready Exercise Argument Libertarian Favors Good And Evil Rulers Mixtures Discouraged Framework Compulsion

Author:Murray Rothbard

“You and I were created for joy, and if we miss it we miss the reason for our existence. If our joy is honest joy, it must somehow be congruous with human tragedy. This is the test of joy's integrity. It is compatible with pain. Only the heart that hurts has a right to joy.”

Ifs Humans Heart Reason Pain Joy Hurt Existence Honest Missing Integrity Tests Tragedy Compatible

Author:Lewis B. Smedes

“When you know your reason for existence, it should effect the decisions you make.”

Knows Should Reason Decision Existence Effects Decisions You Make

Author:Patrick Lencioni

“Travel is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with existence or the exotic. It is almost always an inner experience.”

Mind States Existence State Of Mind Exotic

Author:Paul Theroux

“Has it ever occurred to you that love is the greatest positive force in existence?”

Force Love Is Existence

Book:Say It with Love

Source: Say It with Love

“At the center of the universe, is a deep abiding love. We are called to be part of it. We Catholics and Christians are not ashamed to believe this. We invite everyone to accept the challenge to live as if we were all loved into existence.”

Ifs Believe Christian Universe Challenges Existence Accepting Catholic Ashamed Invites Abiding Center Of The Universe Abiding Love

Author:Jennifer Morse

“Christ can be trusted to keep His Word that He will exchange our drab existence for joyous living, abundant life! And while true love, total acceptance, and complete security are rare in our frantic world, the biblical evidence that our desires in these areas will be fulfilled in Christ is abundant.”

World Desire Christ Existence Security Acceptance Evidence Areas Trusted Biblical Fulfilled Joyous Abundant Life Frantic

Author:Josh McDowell

“There are two Gods, there is the God that people generally believe in - a God who has to serve them. This God does not exist. But the God whom people forget - the God whom we all have to serve - exists, and is the prime cause of our existence and of all that we perceive.”

People Believe Doe Two Causes Forget Existence Perceive Prime

Book:A Confession: The Gospel in Brief, and What I Believe

Source: A Confession: The Gospel in Brief, and What I Believe

“The denial of an objective moral law, based on the compulsion to deny the existence of God, results ultimately in the denial of evil iteself.”

Law Evil Results Existence Moral Deny Objectives Denial Compulsion Existence Of God Moral Law

Book:Beyond Opinion: Living the Faith We Defend

Source: Beyond Opinion: Living the Faith We Defend

“It is part of our "Mormon" theology that the Constitution of the United States was divinely inspired; that our Republic came into existence through wise men raised up for that very purpose. We believe it is the duty of the members of the Church to see that this Republic is not subverted either by any sudden or constant erosion of those principles which gave this Nation its birth.”

“Our political way of life is by the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God, and of course presupposes the existence of God, the moral ruler of the universe, and a rule of right and wrong, of just and unjust, binding upon man, preceding all institutions of human society and government.”

Men Way Humans Government Law Political Life Is Universe Courses Existence Moral Institutions Rulers Unjust Laws Of Nature Human Society Binding Existence Of God

Author:John Quincy Adams

“Ultimately, power only really listens to power, and if government is to be improved, we must be able to threaten its existence, not merely its reputation.”

Ifs Government Able Existence Reputation

Author:Vaclav Havel

“An essential point in the social philosophy of interventionism is the existence of an inexhaustible fund which can be squeezed forever. The whole system of interventionism collapses when the fountain is drained off: The Santa Clause principle liquidates itself.”

Philosophy Whole Social Existence Principles Forever Essentials Fund Collapse Fountain Santa Santa Claus Clauses Drained Interventionism Santa Clause

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“One third of the $15 trillion of mortgages in existence in 2008 are owned, or securitized by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Ginnie Mae, the Federal Housing and the Veterans Administration. Wall Street buyers of repackaged loans didn't mind buying risky paper because they assumed that they would be guaranteed by the federal government: read bailout from the taxpayers. Today's housing mess can be laid directly at the feet of Congress and the White House.”

Source: American Contempt for Liberty

“Before modern man can gain control over the forces that now threaten his very existence, he must resume possession of himself. This sets the chief mission for the city of the future: that of creating a visible regional and civic structure, designed to make man at home with his deeper self and his larger world, attached to images of human nature and love.”

Men World Humans Self Home Force Cities Existence Modern Human Nature Creating Gains And Love Structure Possession Deeper Missions Chiefs Visible Civics Resumes Modern Man Love And Nature

Author:Lewis Mumford

“The active, insatiate principle of self-love can alone supply the arts of life and the wages of industry; and as soon as civil government and exclusive property have been introduced, they become necessary to the existence of the human race.”

Humans Has Beens Art Self Government Race Existence Principles Industry Self Love Property Active Human Race Wages Exclusive

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)

“Nothing is more senseless than to base so many expectations on the state, that is, to assume the existence of collective wisdom and foresight after taking for granted the existence of individual imbecility and improvidence.”

States Individual Existence Expectations Assuming Granted Collectives Foresight Imbecility Collective Wisdom

Author:Frederic Bastiat

“Men and women who refuse to acknowledge God's existence do so, in the final analysis, because it is contrary to their manner of living. They do not want to bow to the moral claims of a holy God on their lives.”

Men Want Existence Moral Holy Men And Women Claims Finals Refuse Contrary Acknowledge Analysis Bows Holy God

Author:R. C. Sproul

“How incredible it is that in this fragile existence we should hate and destroy one another. There are possibilities enough for all who will abandon mastery over others to pursue mastery over nature. There is world enough for all to seek their happiness in their own way.”

World Way Should Enough Hate Existence Possibility Incredibles Pursue Abandon Fragile Mastery

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Whatever kind of story you're telling, whether it's a genre piece for a comic book or whatever it is, it has importance because it's all a metaphor for the existence of our being.”

Kind Book Stories Existence Pieces Importance Metaphor Comic Genre Comic Book

Author:Seth Gabel

“Working with children is very different than the way in which I work with adults. I never tell the children the actual truth of the thing that I want them to act. Although children are really into play and play acting, and this is a major part of their existence, they never actually find the playing or acting of adults credible.”

Way Want Children Different Play Acting Existence Majors Adults Credible Working With Children

Author:Asghar Farhadi

“Living in war is a co- existence with death.”

War Existence

Author:Zainab Salbi

“I wonder how long this word will last, governed exclusively by the merciless, inhuman and immoral criteria of global economy. Seeing the shadow of distant islands, I imagined one still inhabited by a tribe of poets set aside for when, after the middle age of materialism, humanity will have to start to put other values into his existence.”

Long Stills Age Lasts Values Humanity Existence Wonder Economy Seeing Middle Poet Shadow Islands Materialism Tribes Immoral Middle Ages Criteria Inhuman Global Economy

Author:Tiziano Terzani

“Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country.”

People Country Helping Energy Existence Talent Bases Lays Ancient Japan Asia Ancient Times

Author:Daisaku Ikeda

“We no longer have a choice between violence and non-violence. The choice of today stands between nonviolence or non-existence.”

Today Choices Existence Violence Nonviolence Non Violence Non Existence

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“The tragedy with velocity as the answer to complexity is that, after awhile, you cannot see or comprehend anything that is not traveling at the same speed you are. And you actually start to feel disturbed by people who have a sense of restfulness to their existence.”

People Feels Answers Existence Tragedy Speed Complexity Disturbed Velocity

Author:David Whyte

“No intellect is needed to see those figures who wait beyond the void of death - every child is aware of them, blazing with glories dark or bright, wrapped in authority older than the universe. They are the stuff of our earliest dreams, as of our dying visions. Rightly we feel our lives guided by them, and rightly too we feel how little we matter to them, the builders of the unimaginable, the fighters of wars beyond the totality of existence.”

Source: Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'

“Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.”

World Existence Population Curse

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“Eugene Peterson points out that "the root meaning in Hebrew of salvation is to be broad, to become spacious, to enlarge. It carries the sense of deliverance from an existence that has become compressed, confined and cramped." God wants to set free, to make it possible for us to live open and loving lives with God and our neighbors. "I run in the path of your commands, for you have set my heart free," wrote the psalmist.”

Want Heart Running Existence Path My Heart Roots Salvation Neighbor Command Carrie Broads Confined Loving Life Deliverance Hebrew

Author:Philip Yancey

“To be known by God is the highest goal of human existence.”

Humans Goal Existence Known Highest Human Existence

Author:R. C. Sproul

“The existence of hypocrites does not prove the non-existence of true believers.”

Doe Existence Prove Believer Hypocrite True Believer Non Existence

Book:The Salt-cellars: Being a Collection of Proverbs, Together with Homely Notes Thereon

Source: The Salt-cellars: Being a Collection of Proverbs, Together with Homely Notes Thereon

“The believer in God has to account for the existence of unjust suffering; the atheist has to account for everything else.”

Suffering Existence Accounts Atheist Believer Unjust

Author:Milton Steinberg

“Reading is a gymnasium for the imagination where people can work out, get ready for the shocks of existence. [...] For me, the intimate teachers have not only taught me how to make things, they have represented some qualities of mind and mindfulness that I would like to have.”

People Mind Reading Imagination Existence Quality Teacher Taught Ready Mindfulness Work Out Intimate Shock Gymnasiums

Author:Robert Hass

“Existence begins in every instant.”

Existence Instant

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.”

Humans Character Understanding Existence Historical Profound Genuine Nobility Detachment Objectivity Human Existence Historical Knowledge

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The [liberals] consider profits as objectionable. The very existence of profits is in their eyes a proof that wage rates could be raised without harm to anybody. They speak of profit without dealing with loss. Profit and loss are the instruments by means of which the consumers keep a tight rein on all business activities. A profitable enterprise tends to expand; an unprofitable one tends to shrink. The elimination of profit renders production rigid and abolishes the consumer's control.”

Mean Eye Speak Loss Existence Activity Instruments Raised Rate Profit Productions Harm Proof Consumers Enterprise Shrinks Profitable Abolish Elimination Reins Profit And Loss

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“We create the possibility for a better human form in our next life if during our jamaloca existence after death, when we still have an astral body, we can have memories connected with music.”

Ifs Humans Stills Body Form Next Memories Existence Possibility Connected After Death Human Form Next Life

Author:Rudolf Steiner

“As a house implies a builder, and a garment a weaver, and a door a carpenter, so does the existence of the Universe imply a Creator.”

Doe Universe House Existence Doors Creator Garments Builder Carpenter Weavers

Author:Luc de Clapiers

“The use of violence in our struggle would be both impractical and immoral. To meet hate with retaliatory hate would do nothing but intensify the existence of evil in the universe. Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love; we must meet physical force with soul force. Our aim must never be to defeat or humiliate the white man, but to win his friendship and understanding.”

Source: A Martin Luther King Treasury

“The existence of poverty in the US should not be accepted as a necessary evil or insoluble problem, but should be considered a crisis requiring emergency measures. It is a matter of will and priorities, not a matter of resources.”

Should Matter Problem Evil Existence Poverty Resources Crisis Accepted Priorities Emergencies Necessary Evil

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“If anyone assert the fabulous pre-existence of souls and shall submit to the monstrous doctrine that follows from it, let him be anathema [excommunicated]”

Ifs Soul Existence Doctrine Submit Fabulous Monstrous Anathema

Author:Justinian I

“Without aspirations for a better existence, you're stuck in the mud and going nowhere.”

Existence Stuck Aspiration Mud

Book:Fabulosity: What It Is & How to Get It

Source: Fabulosity: What It Is & How to Get It

“The sabbath is God's special present to the working man, and one of its chief objects is to prolong his life, and preserve efficient his working tone. The savings bank of human existence is the weekly sabbath.”

Men Humans Existence Special Objects Saving Chiefs Preserves Tone Efficient Savings Human Existence Sabbath Working Man

Author:William Blaikie

“Sin is not only manifested in certain acts that are forbidden by divine command. Sin also appears in attitudes and dispositions and feelings. Lust and hate are sins as well as adultery and murder. And, in the traditional Christian view, despair and chronic boredom - unaccompanied by any vicious act - are serious sins. They are expressions of man's separation from God, as the ultimate good, meaning, and end of human existence.”

“We understand hereby, that the family, the business, science, art and so forth are all social spheres, which do not owe their existence to the State, but obey a high authority within their own bosom; an authority which rules, by the grace of God, just as the sovereignty of the State does.”

Doe Art States Social Existence Grace Authority Spheres Sovereignty Grace Of God Bosoms

Book:Lectures on Calvinism

Source: Lectures on Calvinism

“Religion of every kind involves the promise that the misery and futility of existence can be overcome or even transfigured. One might suppose that the possession of such a magnificent formula, combined with the tremendous assurance of a benevolent God, would make a person happy. But such appears not to be the case.: unease and insecurity and rage seem to keep up with blissful certainty, and even to outpace it.”

Kind Persons Seems Might Existence Cases Promise Overcoming Misery Possession Rage Certainty Insecurity Formulas Magnificent Assurance Futility Benevolent

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.”

Individual Existence Lonely Agony Helpless Shambles

Book:The Varieties of Religious Experience

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience

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