Brian J. Pierce

“Everything is grace; everything is a gift.”
― Brian J. Pierce, We Walk the Path Together: Learning from Thich Nhat Hanh and Meister Eckhart: Leaning from Thich Nhat Hanh and Meister Eckhart

“The medieval Dominican theologian Thomas Aquinas, who greatly influenced Eckhart and all theologians of the era, made the distinction between God as a verb (esse: to be) and the created universe as a noun (ens: being). Commenting on Aquinas, Paul Philibert, OP, says, “God is not a static reality on a shelf. God is active everywhere in the sense that wherever anything exists, God's is the present, active force of its existence.”
― Brian J. Pierce, We Walk the Path Together: Learning from Thich Nhat Hanh and Meister Eckhart: Leaning from Thich Nhat Hanh and Meister Eckhart