Quotes about Being

All of this suggests that Mark's gospel, with Jesus himself as the great Character who stands behind it, is inviting us to something not so much like rule-keeping on the one hand or following our own dreams on the other, but a way of being human

The inescapable fact that we are personal beings constitutes evidence that our origin is a personal Being.

As theologian N. T. Wright points out, trees behave as trees, rocks as rocks and the seas as the seas, but "Only humans, it seems, have the capacity to live as something other than what they are.

You cannot know wisdom. You can only be wisdom.

I personally experienced what can happen when the gospel of Jesus Christ gets reduced to a series of theological ideas coupled with all the skills necessary to access those ideas. Bad things happen when maturity is more defined by knowing than it is by being. Danger is afloat when you come to love the ideas more than the God whom they represent and the people they are meant to free. One

Parenting gets to the core of what should motivate every thought, desire, word, decision, or action that every human being has ever taken.

The transcendent glory that every human being quests for, whether he knows it or not, is not a thing; it is a person, and his name is God.

The name of this infinite and inexhaustible depth and ground of all being is God.

Man creates what he is.

The faith which makes the courage of despair possible is the acceptance of the power of being, even in the grip of non-being. Even in the despair about meaning being affirms itself through us. The act of accepting meaninglessness is in itself a meaningful act. It is an act of faith.

Courage as an element of faith is the daring self-affirmation of one's own being in spite of the powers of "non-being" which are the heritage of everything finite.

Joy is the emotional expression of the courageous YES to one's own true being.