Quotes about Being

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.

Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

The most important thing in our lives is what we are doing now.