Quotes about Being

OUR discovery of God is, in a way, God's discovery of us. We cannot go to heaven to find Him because we have no way of knowing where heaven is or what it is. He comes down from heaven and finds us. He looks at us from the depths of His own infinite actuality, which is everywhere, and His seeing us gives us a new being and a new mind in which we also discover Him.

Therefore each particular being, in its individuality, its concrete nature and entity, with all its own characteristics and its private qualities and its own inviolable identity, gives glory to God by being precisely what He wants it to be here and now, in the circumstances ordained for it by His Love and His infinite Art.

If it is awakened, it communicates a new life to the intelligence in which it lives, so that it becomes a living awareness of itself: and this awareness is not so much something that we ourselves have, as something that we are. It is a new and indefinable quality of our living being.

humble realization of our mysterious being as persons in whom God dwells, with infinite sweetness and inalienable power.

Because we are made in God's image, in fleeing from a relationship with a loving God, we are also running from being our most authentic selves.

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

There is nothing to find, only to realize. There is nothing to become, only to be. There is nothing to fear, only to love.

For any created being, autonomy is lunacy. Freedom involves trust and obedience inside a relationship of love.

He is who He was, and He is also who He will be because the great I Am never steps out of the present tense.

Imagination is biblical reasoning in its Sunday best, lost in wonder at the creativity of the Creator. Being

Pastor-theologians exist to embody the evangelical mood, an indicative declaration ("He is risen! He is Lord!") and a concomitant way of being that is attuned to the world as already-not-yet made new in Jesus Christ.