Quotes About Being

is deeply sad when we use the greatest being of all as an instrument for our own smallness.

To be alive, Professor Sharif, means not being completely consistent. It means venturing out in many directions all at the same time, and I wonder if your friend didn't find himself in the throes of some sort of upheaval. Maybe he really did destroy his life's work. Maybe he revealed himself with all his inherent contradictions towards the end, and became a true human being in the best sense of the word.

Fiction, with its preference for what is small and might elsewhere seem irrelevant; its facility for smuggling us into another skin and allowing us to live a new life there; its painstaking devotion to what without it might go unnoticed and unseen; its respect for contingency, and the unlikely and odd; its willingness to expose itself to moments of low, almost animal being and make them nobly illuminating, can deliver truths we might not otherwise stumble on.

In God alone, essence (what He is) and existence (that he is) coincide.

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

When nothing was, then God was there, Had nothing been God would have been; My being has defeated me, Had I not been, what would have been.

We do not know what God is. God Himself does not know what He is because He is not anything. Literally God is not, because He transcends being.

Only those of tranquil minds, and none else, can attain abiding joy, by realizing within their souls the Being who manifests one essence in a multiplicity of forms.

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

God is not He who is, but That which is.

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

The voice of God whispers in the heart So softly That the soul pauses, Making no noise, And strives for these melodies, Distant, sighing, like faintest breath, And all the being is still to hear.

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.

God, as I use the word, is another name for what is. I always know God's intention: It's exactly what is in every moment.

For God is himself the Being of all Beings, and we are as gods in him, through whom he revealeth himself.

Every night in sleep God takes away all your troubles to show you that you are not a mortal being; you are spirit.

God is not a demiurge [demigod] or a magician, but the Creator who gives being to all entities.

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

God does not think; he creates. He does not exist; he is eternal.

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

In this breaking-through, I receive that God and I are one. Then I am what I was, and then I neither diminish nor increase, for I am then an immovable cause that moves all things.

God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.

In God's dimension, so to speak, you find a being who is three Persons while remaining one Being, just as a cube is six squares while remaining one cube.