CCC 300

God is infinitely greater than all his works: "You have set your glory above the heavens."¹⁵⁶ Ps 8:1; cf. Sir 43:28. Indeed, God's "greatness is unsearchable".¹⁵⁷ Ps 145:3. 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."¹⁵⁸ Acts 17:28. In the words of St. Augustine, God is "higher than my highest and more inward than my innermost self".¹⁵⁹ St. Augustine, Conf: 3, 6, 11: PL 32, 688PL — Patrologia Latina (Migne).