Being is Good

God's Creation, Imago Dei, Logos and the Telos of Being

Sep 22, 2025

“If you want to grow, you have to suffer.
It’s hard to learn.
Into the night.
Crack of dawn in the morning.
Start with the Bible.
Read the Classics.
Study the founding of America.
In those places, you will find that there’s a ladder that reaches up toward God.
And at the bottom of it is the ordinary good things that are around us everywhere.
If we can call them by their names, they have Being.
And the Being’s of the Good Things are figments of God.
You will find that article in Aristotle.
You will find it in the Bible.
You will find it in Madison and Jefferson”...
— Dr Larry Arnn, Memorial Service to honour Charlie Kirk

[LINK] - Dr Larry Arnn, Memorial Service to honour Charlie Kirk

“Do you know, a Good Thing is a Thing that has Being.
An Assassin is not a Thing that has Being.
The Assassin must give up his Humanity to destroy something that has Being.
Charlie lives on.
The Assassin will die”…
— Dr Larry Arnn, Memorial Service to honour Charlie Kirk

[LINK] - Dr Larry Arnn, Memorial Service to honour Charlie Kirk

“It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things.
And all people call this thing God”…
— Thomas Aquinas

“It is this ‘idea of existence' or ‘light of being' given to man which constitutes the objectivity of truth, as seen by the human mind.
For truth is that which is, as falsehood is that which is not.
It is this which makes man intelligent, and gives him a moral law by which he sees the beingness or essence of things, and recognises the duty of his own being,to act toward each being, whether finite or infinite, creature or God,according to the beingness or essence of being which he beholds in the light of the truth of being”…
- Antonio Rosmini