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• We are here on earth

  To know and to love God, to do good according to his will, and to go someday to heaven
• To be a human being


  Means to come from God and to go back to God
• Our origin goes back farther than our parents
• We come from God, in whom all the happiness of heaven and earth is at home, and we are expected in his everlasting, infinite blessedness
• Sometimes we feel that our Creator is near; often we feel nothing at all
• God sent us his Son


  Who freed us from sin, delivers us from all evil, and lead us unerringly into true life
• God created us out of free and unselfish love
• God wanted to share his endless joy with us, who are creatures of his love
• Johari window


  A technique that helps people better understand their relationship with themselves and others

  
• God has placed in our hearts a longing to seek and find him
• Religion


  A relationship to what is divine
• A religious person acknowledges something divine as the power that created him and the world, on which he is dependent and to which he is ordered
• A religious person wants to please and honor the Divinity by his way of life
• It is natural for us men to seek God
• All of our striving for truth and happiness is ultimately a search for the one who supports us absolutely, satisfies us absolutely, and employs us absolutely in his service
• A person is not completely himself until he has found God
• Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it
• The World cannot have its origin and its destination within itself
• In everything that exists, there is more than we see
• The order, the beauty, and the development of the world point beyond themselves toward God
• Every man is of conscience, which urges him to what is good and warns him against what is evil
• Anyone who follows this path reasonably finds God
• God is actively present in our lives even if God is invisible
• God makes His presence experienced through people, creation and events
• To know the invisible God is a great challenge for the human mind
• Although we men are limited and the infinite greatness of God never fits into finite human concepts, we can nevertheless speak rightly about God
• Everything we say about God is subject to the reservation that our language is not equal to God's greatness
• We must constantly purify and improve our speech about God
• Man can know by reason that God exists, but not what God is really like
• God would very much like to be known, so he has revealed himself
• God did not have to reveal himself to us, but he did it—out of love
• Just as in human love one can know something about the beloved person only if he opens his heart to us, so too we know something about God's inmost thoughts only because the eternal and mysterious God has opened himself to us out of love
• From creation on, through the patriarchs and the prophets down to the definitive REVELATION in his Son Jesus Christ, God has spoken again and again to mankind
• In Jesus Christ, God has poured out his heart to us and made his inmost being visible for us
• Revelation means that God opens himself, shows himself, and speaks to the world voluntarily
• God shows himself in the OLD TESTAMENT as God, who created the world out of love and remains faithful to men even when they have fallen away from him into sin
• In the Old Testament, God revealed Himself through biblical signs made up of both deeds and words
• God made covenants with Noah, with Abraham, and with Moses
• God performed great works for His Chosen People, and proclaimed their saving power and truth through the prophets' words
• God makes it possible to experience him in history