Existential Belief Quotes

Man cannot live without a permanent trust in something indestructible in himself, though both the indestructible element and the trust may remain permanently hidden from him. One of the ways in which this hiddenness can express itself is through faith in a personal god.

I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.

I do have a strong sense of God. It's impossible to explain what I mean when I say that, of course.

It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a grand peut-tre -but still it is a grand one. Everybody clings to it -the stupidest, and dullest, and wickedest of human bipeds is still persuaded that he is immortal.

There is no place in the world but contains some trace of God.

I believe in you and me. I'm like Albert Schweitzer and Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein in that I have a respect for life -- in any form. I believe in nature, in the birds, the sea, the sky, in everything I can see or that there is real evidence for. If these things are what you mean by God, then I believe in God. But I don't believe in a personal God to whom I look for comfort or for a natural on the next roll of the dice.

God is in me or else is not at all.

My belief in God is that God wants you. God wants you to believe in him, or it, whatever you would call it.

There is a God, even in Hollywood.

I know it's very egocentric to believe that someone is put on Earth for a reason. In my case, I like to think I was.

I know for a fact that Heaven and Hell are here on Earth.

I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly.

I am conscious of eternal life.

And God, God who believes in us all. And who's given me this moment, in this lifetime, that I will hopefully carry to the end of my lifetime into the next lifetime.

I came to realize I did believe in God. I couldn't conceive of a universe without someone overseeing it in a compassionate way.

My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have... an ambition of transcendence.

It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that mainly rests the belief or unbelief in the existence around us of other conscious beings besides the Spirits of the Dead.

I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and well-informed people I know are religious believers. It isn't just that I don't believe in God and, naturally, I hope that I'm right in my belief. It's that I hope there is no God! I don't want there to be a God; I don't want the universe to be like that.