Quotes about Being

Happiness consists not of having, but of being. It is a warm glow of the heart at peace with itself.

Happiness consists not in having, but of being, not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is the warm glow of a heart at peace with itself.

Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.

Man is, so to speak, an endless and infinitely varied repetition: and if we know what one man feels, we so far know what a thousand feel in the sanctuary of their being. Our feeling of general humanity is at once an aggregate of a thousand different truths, and it is also the same truth a thousand times told.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.

The best gift you can give a human being is an introduction to a God who loves them.

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

The fundamental principle of Christianity is to be what God is, and he is light.

God is never impressed with what a man can do. He is more concerned with what a man is.

There isn't a single motivation, thought, act, or word that has slipped out of your being and escaped the full, undivided attention of God.

I know by myself how incomprehensible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend the parts of my own being.

God is loving us - you and me - this moment, just as we are and not as we should be.