Quotes About Existence

Your image of God creates you. Your image of God creates you. Your image of God creates you.

We cannot attain the presence of God because we're already totally in the presence of God. What's absent is awareness

It's heaven all the way to heaven. And it's hell all the way to hell. Not later, but now.

What was God up to in those first moments of creation? Was God totally invisible before the universe began? Or is there even such a thing as "before"? Why did God create at all? What was God's purpose in creating? Is the universe itself eternal? Or is the universe a creation in time as we know it—like Jesus himself?

Is there any evidence for why God created the heavens and the earth? What was God up to? Was there any divine intention or goal? Or do we even need a creator "God" to explain the universe?

Vocatus atque non vocatus, Deus aderit, "Invoked or not invoked, God is still present."*3

Albert Einstein is supposed to have said, "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Everything is the "child of God." No exceptions. When you think of it, what else could anything be? All creatures must in some way carry the divine DNA of their Creator.

Your True Self is who you objectively are from the beginning, in the mind and heart of God

Death is not a changing of worlds as most imagine, as much as the walls of this world infinitely expanding.

It is all one continuum of Incarnation. Who we are in God is who we all are. Everything else is changing and passing away.

God comes to you disguised as your life," as my friend Paula D'Arcy so wisely says.

Remember, "God" is just a word for Reality—with a Face! And occasionally Interface (which some call "prayer" or "love").

You are who you are in the eyes of God, nothing more and nothing less," he often said.12

Everything visible, without exception, is the outpouring of God. What else could it really be? "Christ" is a word for the Primordial Template ("Logos") through whom "all things came into being, and not one thing had its being except through him" (John 1:3).

It is impossible to make individuals feel sacred inside of a profane, empty, or accidental universe.

Ordinary matter is the hiding place for Spirit, and thus the very Body of God. Honestly, what else could it be, if we believe—as orthodox Jews, Christians, and Muslims do—that "one God created all things"?

The self-same moment that we find God in ourselves, we also find ourselves inside God

The joyful acceptance of a limited world, of which I am only a small moment and limited part—this is probably the clearest indication of a man in his fullness.

For Scotus, as for Bonaventure, the Trinity is the absolute beginning point—and ending point too. Outpouring Love is the inherent shape of the universe, and when we love, only then do we fully exist in this universe. We do not need to "understand" what is happening, or who God is, before we can live in love. The will to love precedes any need to fully understand what we are doing, the Franciscan School would say.

Life is a luminous pause between two great mysteries, which themselves are one.

If God chooses and doles out his care, we are always insecure and unsure whether we are among the lucky recipients. But once we become aware of the generous, creative Presence that exists in all things natural, we can receive it as the inner Source of all dignity and worthiness. Dignity is not doled out to the worthy. It grounds the inherent worthiness of things in their very nature and existence.

What made us think we were

Only presence can know presence. And our real presence can know Real Presence.