Reflections on the Existence of God Quotes

“Our compulsive busyness, our dread of unstructured time, and our reluctance to be alone with ourselves are rooted in the uncomfortable sense that our lives lack meaning, that we are disconnected and alone.”
― Richard E. Simmons III, Reflections on the Existence of God: A Series of Essays

“all yearn for. God”
― Richard E Simmons III, Reflections on the Existence of God: A Series of Essays

“wanted to believe the Darwinian idea. I chose to believe it not because I think there was enormous evidence for it, nor because it had the full authority to give interpretation to my origins, but I chose to believe it because it delivered me from trying to find meaning and freed me to my own erotic passions.”
― Richard E Simmons III, Reflections on the Existence of God: A Series of Essays

“Love is not an illusion created by the genes to promote our evolutionary survival, but an aspect of human nature that reflects the fundamental fabric of ultimate reality.”9”
― Richard E Simmons III, Reflections on the Existence of God: A Series of Essays

“No society has ever survived or will ever survive without morality, and no morality has ever survived without a transcendent source.”19”
― Richard E Simmons III, Reflections on the Existence of God: A Series of Essays