Quotes about Being

And I knew not God to be a Spirit, not one who hath parts extended in length and breadth, or whose being was bulk; for every bulk is less in a part than in the whole: and if it be infinite, it must be less in such part as is defined by a certain space, than in its infinitude; and so is not wholly every where, as Spirit, as God. And what that should be in us, by which we were like to God, and might be rightly said to be after the image of God, I was altogether ignorant.

Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

He in whom the love of truth predominates . . . submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion; but he is a candidate for truth . . . and respects the highest law of his being.

The soul is the truth of who we are.

The center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth.

Divinity is not a fashion. It is the way of life. It is the need of yourbeing, you have to become that.

Deep at the center of my being there is an infinite well of love. I now allow this love to flow to the surface.

We're far more than just physical beings having a spiritual experience. We're spiritual beings having a temporary physical experience.

What is it, then, that comprises our deepest selves and gives us worth?

Our challenge isn't in becoming more than we are, because we are already risen and complete. Our challenge is to remember and abide in who we are, each day and each hour.

When being is divorced from doing, pious thoughts become an adequate substitute for washing dirty feet.

Failure to recognize the value of mere being with God, as the beloved, without doing anything, is to gouge the heart out of Christianity."10