Quotes about Being

God defines himself as "I am who I am", which also means: My being is such that I shall always be present in every moment of becoming.

Wonder—the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of knowledge—promises to become the point of departure for genuine insight only where it has reached the stage in which the subject, overwhelmed by the object, has, as it were, fused into a single point or into nothing… like the movement of hope and love toward God, which is genuine and selfless only where it has assumed the attitude of pure worship of God for his own sake.

Or you agree with Pierre Teilhard de Chardin when he said, 'We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

I do not evolve, I AM.

Truth reveals reality, and reality can be described as what we humans run into when we are wrong, a collision in which we always lose.

Indeed, by taking the title Son of man, he staked his claim to be all that the human being was originally supposed to be—and surely much more.

Worship nevertheless imprints on our whole being the reality that we study. The effect is a radical disruption of the powers of evil in us and around us. Often an enduring and substantial change is brought about. And the renewal of worship keeps the glow and power of our true homeland an active agent in all parts of our being. To "hear and do" in the atmosphere of worship is the clearest, most obvious and natural thing imaginable.

Remember that our heart is our will, or our spirit: the center of our being from which our life flows. It is what gives orientation to everything we do. A heart rightly directed therefore brings health and wholeness to the entire personality.

Unlike egotism, the drive to significance is a simple extension of the creative impulse of God that gave us being. It is not filtered through self-consciousness any more than is our lunge to catch a package falling from someone's hand. It is outwardly directed to the good to be done. We were built to count, as water is made to run downhill. We are placed in a specific context to count in ways no one else does. That is our destiny.

You are an unceasing spiritual being, created for an intimate and transforming friendship with the creative Community that is the Trinity.

He calls us to him to impart himself to us. He does not call us to do what he did, but to be as he was, permeated with love. Then the doing of what he did and said becomes the natural expression of who we are in him.

The strongest force in the universe is a human being living consistently with his identity.