in the end, the only thing that matters is Him

It is the silence of our whole being before God, in the habitual realization that He is everything and we are nothing, that He is the center to which all things tend, and to whom all our actions must be directed. That our life and strength proceed from Him, that both in life and in death we depend entirely on Him, that the whole course of our life is foreknown by Him and falls into the plan of His wise and merciful Providence; that it is absurd to live as though without Him, for ourselves, by ourselves, that all of our plans and spiritual ambitions are useless unless they come from Him and end in Him and that, in the end, the only thing that matters is Him. -Thomas Merton