CCC 300 God is infinitely greater than all his works: “You have set your glory above the heavens.”1 Indeed, God’s “greatness is unsearchable”.2 But because he is the free and sovereign Creator, the first cause of all that exists, God is present to his creatures’ inmost being: “In him we live and move and have our being.”3 In the words of St. Augustine, God is “higher than my highest and more inward than my innermost self”.4
1 Ps 8:1; cf. Sir 43:28.
2 Ps 145:3.
3 Acts 17:28.
4 St. Augustine, Conf. 3,6,11: PL 32,688.