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• How could it occur to anyone to demonstrate that God exists unless one has already allowed Himself to ignore Him? A king's existence is demonstrated by way of subjection and submissiveness. Do you want to try and demonstrate that the king exists? Will you do so by offering a string of proofs, a series of arguments? No. If you are serious, you will demonstrate the king's existence by your submission, by the way you live. And so it is with demonstrating God's existence. It is accomplished not by proofs but by worship. Any other way is but a thinker's pious bungling.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Kings, Offering

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• Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Religion, Lure, Ifs

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2007). “Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo”, p.242, Wordsworth Editions

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• One thing I have no worry about is whether God exists. But it has occurred to me that God has Alzheimer's and has forgotten we exist.

  Jane Wagner

  Spiritual, Atheist, Science

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• If belief in the existence of God is predicted to lead to a feeling of contentment, and the prediction is fulfilled, does it follow that God exists? Surely not. All that would follow would be the desireability of the belief.

  Richard Posner

  Spiritual, Atheist, Science

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• If you find it difficult to love the human in someone, then love the divine in him. The divine in him is God. God exists in that person just as God exists in you. To love God is extremely easy because God is divine and perfect. Each time you look at an individual, if you can consciously become aware of God's existence in him, then you will not be disturbed by his or her imperfections or limitations.

  Sri Chinmoy

  God, Perfect, Looks

  "The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace".

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• Just because you're 40, you don't have to decide whether God exists...when you're already worrying that the National Security Agency is reading your emails, it's better not to know whether yet another entity is watching you.

  Pamela Druckerman

  Reading, Agency, Worry

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• Define the word exist, and you'll know whether God exists.

  Bill Gaede

  Whether God Exists, Existence, Knows

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• Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.

  Denis Diderot

  Sublime, Doe, Useless

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• I know that God exists. I know that I have never invented anything. I have been a medium by which these things were given to the culture as fast as the culture could earn them. I give all the credit to God.

  Philo

  Giving, Culture, Credit

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• And yet, or just for this reason, it's so fascinating to be a woman. It's an adventure that takes such courage, a challenge that's never boring. You'll have so many things to engage you if you're born a woman. To begin with, you'll have to struggle to maintain that if God exists he might even be an old woman with white hair or a beautiful girl. Then you'll have to struggle to explain that it wasn't sin that was born on the day when Eve picked an apple, what was born that day was a splendid virtue called disobedience.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Beautiful, Girl, Struggle

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• ...one interior life in which all beings live with God, themselves are God, existing in the mighty whole, indistinguishable as the cloudless east is from the cloudless west, when all the hemisphere is one cerulean blue.

  William Wordsworth

  God, Blue, East

  William Wordsworth (1850). “The Prelude, Or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem”, [s.n.]

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• Even if God exists, does He know that you do?

  Dean Koontz

  Doe, Knows, Ifs

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• (You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel ashamed.) (You are wrong. Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame.) (And you are deserving of shame?) (I am. I am trying to tell you.) 'We were stupid,' he said, 'because we believed in things.' 'Why is this stupid?' 'Because there are not things to believe in.' (Love?) (There is no love. Only the end of love.) (Goodness?) (Do not be a fool.) (God?) (If God exists, He is not to be believed in.)

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Stupid, Believe, People

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.245, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.

  Marianne Williamson

  Wisdom, Time, Eternity

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• I am used to hear bad men misuse the name of God, yet God exists.

  Robert Bolt

  Men, Names, Misuse

  Robert Bolt (2013). “A Man For All Seasons”, p.97, A&C Black

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• If god exists, he is not to be believed in.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Ifs

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.245, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• sometimes you get run down. sometimes life throws dirt in your eyes and it stings and you can't see for a few minutes. even after you get it out your eyes are all red and your vision is shitty... but eventually, whether through tears or maybe just time... you start to see even clearer than before. life is not always good. which is why music exists. why i believe God exists. and why there's always a pint of coconut milk ice cream in my freezer.

  Hayley Williams

  Running, Believe, Eye

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• I miss God. I miss the company of someone utterly loyal. I still don't think of God as my betrayer. The servants of God, yes, but servants by their very nature betray. I miss God who was my friend. I don't even know if God exists, but I do know that if God is your emotional role model, very few human relationships will match up to it.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Emotional, Thinking, Servant Of God

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.170, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Solitude begins with a time and place for God, and him alone. If we really believe not only that God exists but also that he is actively present in our lives—healing, teaching, and guiding — we need to set aside a time and space to give him our undivided attention.

  Henri Nouwen

  Believe, Teaching, Healing

  "The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen".

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• But never in the four hundred years now since I was born, have I ever seen anything to make me doubt whether God exists in some form or the other. Not even the reflection in the mirror.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Reflection, Mirrors, Years

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “New Moon”, p.28, Hachette UK

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• People are invariably surprised to hear me say I am both an atheist and an agnostic, as if this somehow weakens my certainty. I usually reply with a question like, “Well, are you a Republican or an American?” The two words serve different concepts and are not mutually exclusive. Agnosticism addresses knowledge; atheism addresses belief. The agnostic says, “I don't have a knowledge that God exists.” The atheist says, “I don't have a belief that God exists.” You can say both things at the same time. Some agnostics are atheistic and some are theistic.

  Dan Barker

  Atheist, Two, People

  Dan Barker (2009). “Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists”, p.96, Ulysses Press

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• It is not for the gods to decide whether or not Man exists - it is for Man to decide whether or not the gods exist.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Men

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• Little by little, studying the infinite possibilities of a loss of memory, he realized that the day might come when things would be recognized by their inscriptions but that no one would remember their use.... At the beginning of the road into the swamp they put up a sign that said "Macondo" and another larger one on the main street that said "God exists".

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Memories, Loss, Use

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• His eyes softened. "But it doesn't change what we are to each other. It's like there's always been a piece of my soul missing, and it's inside you, Clary. I know I told you once that whether God exists or not, we're on our own. But when I'm with you, I'm not.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Missing, Soul

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.2282, Simon and Schuster

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• God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore to argue that God exists is to deny him.

  Paul Tillich

  Inspirational, Essence, Doe

  Paul Tillich (1973). “Systematic Theology”, p.205, University of Chicago Press

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