Religion Existentialism Quotes

#1. Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.

Jose Saramago

#2. If it's lawful to have a rifle club to kill pheasants, it should be just as lawful to have one to kill wolves or dogs that are being sicked on little black babies. In fact, it's constitutional. Article Number Two of the constitution guarantees the right of every citizen to own a rifle or a shot gun.

Malcolm X

#3. To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking Him.

Soren Kierkegaard

#4. If you pursue two hares, both will escape you.

Robert Jordan

#5. Little Newt snorted. "Religion!"
"Beg your pardon?" Castle said.
"See the cat?" asked Newt. "See the cradle?

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#6. Bergman was the first to bring metaphysics - religion, death, existentialism - to the screen ... But the best of Bergman is the way he speaks of women, of the relationship between men and women. He's like a miner digging in search of purity.

Bertrand Tavernier

#7. What gave you this idea of an imperfect god?'
'I don't know. It seems quite feasible to me. That is the only god I could imagine believing in, a god whose passion is not a redemption, who saves nothing, fulfills no purpose
a god who simply is.

Stanislaw Lem

#8. I think the greatest player I've ever played against was Magic Johnson. Next, was Larry Bird. Then, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

John Salley

#9. All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.

David Eagleman

#10. I love the shared experience of watching a movie with my kids. One of the great joys in life is when we're all laughing together, at the same thing.

Rob Letterman

#11. My daughter has a problem picking things up in her room. So if you leave your clothes on the floor, we put them in a trash bag. She has to earn them back by being tidy. I'm a disciplinarian. Guy's the spoiler.

Madonna Ciccone

#12. It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.

David Eagleman

#13. The supernatural is not as it claims, for it is inherently unnatural; it seeks to separate us from our natural world.

Joe Iacovino

#14. My mother once said if you can't handle the fact that your world-view might be entirely inaccurate, you are not worthy of believing in it.

Sean J Halford

#15. If the heart did not feel, then there was no hope for the rest. Feeling was necessary to passion and caring and belief.

Jacquelyn Frank

#16. The best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith

Ernest Becker

#17. We are gods with anuses.

Ernest Becker

#18. If you want to convince a criminal to see things your way, start by seeing things theirs.

Aubrea Summer

#19. Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent mutual regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.

Frank Herbert

#20. Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

Anita Brookner

#21. The thought of holy comes before holy is built. Focusing on thinking healthy, positive thoughts is a precursor to the Universe channeling divine energy through us. We see, feel, touch, and smell holy once we think it. As we think, so we become.

Sadiqua Hamdan

#22. Perhaps the Creator of this strange place knows us better than we know ourselves. Perhaps humanity was meant to eternally ponder the purpose and importance of our own existence. If we were assured of either, we'd be intolerable creatures.

Tiffany Madison

#23. Obviously, all religions fall far short of their own ideals.

Ernest Becker