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Quotes About Omnipresence

If we start with such ideas as God's omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence, we will never arrive at a true knowledge of God. However, if we participate by faith in Jesus Christ as the one who "is there for others," we are liberated from self and experience the transcendence that is truly the God of the Bible.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Living becomes an awesome business when you realize that you spend every moment of your life in the sight and company of an omniscient, omnipresent Creator.
~ J. I. Packer
When God is a father, he is said to be elsewhere. When God is a mother, she is said to be everywhere.
~ Jenny Offill
As the Hindu sages who fashioned the Akashic concept realized, there are aspects of the human mind that are unlimited in space, therefore omnipresent, and that are also boundless in time, therefore eternal and immortal. Omnipresence and eternality are qualities that have always been attributed to the Divine—thus the Hindu aphorism Tat tvam asi, "Thou art that," which affirms that we share qualities with the Godhead or the Absolute, however named.
~ Ervin Laszlo
I've heard that about your people. But how can one God do everything? He would have to be huge, and he would have to be everywhere
~ Angela Elwell Hunt
Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence.
~ Godfrey Reggio
He's never there, and yet he's always there
~ Ron Chernow
God dwells in eternity but time dwells in God. He has already lived all our tomorrows as He has lived all our yesterdays. —A.W. TOZER112
~ Leonard Sweet
They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
~ Emily Dickinson
Thanks to technological progress, Big Brother can now be almost as omnipresent as God.
~ Aldous Huxley
Then saith the prophet and slave of the beauteous one: Who am I, and what shall be the sign? So she answered him bending down, a lambent flame of blue, all-touching, all-penetrant, her lovely hands upon the black earth, & her lithe body arched for love, and her soft feet not hurting the little flowers: Thou knowest! And the sign shall be my ecstasy, the consciousness of the continuity of existence, the omnipresence of my body.
~ Aleister Crowley
God is indeed everywhere in everything at all times—in the abstruse as well as the luminous, whether we ourselves can see the hand of God in this moment or not.
~ Joan D. Chittister
Let not those who say that the path of obedience is a dangerous one claim to believe in the living and true God. They deny his omniscience, omnipresence, omnipotence. It is his will that the bands of wickedness should be loosed, the heavy burdens of tyranny undone, the oppressed set free.
~ William Lloyd Garrison
Being omni-present—as every spiritual and religious tradition declares—it must of necessity be as immediate to us as is our every heartbeat, our every breath. Therefore, there is nowhere that we need to go, and nothing that we need to do, in order to be "in contact" with the Absolute.
~ Robert Wolfe
God has put us on earth to love our neighbors and to show it, and He is omnipresent, even in India, to see how we are succeeding.
~ E.M. Forster
God hides things by putting them all around us.
~ Anonymous
The Omnipresence of Violence Violence abounds in American society, touching everyone's life as victim, perpetrator, or anxious observer and witness of the endless violent acts committed locally, nationally, and internationally.
~ Anthony J. Marsella
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere. —Empedocles
~ Frank Moore
No Hiding from God
~ Ron Rhodes
Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there" (Psalm 139:7-8).
~ Ron Rhodes
For even if the Word in his immeasurable essence united with the nature with the nature of man into one person, we do not imagine that he was confined therein. Here is something marvelous: the Son of God descended from heaven in such a way that, without leaving heaven, he willed to be borne in the virgin's womb, to go about earth, and to hang upon the cross; yet he continuously filled the world even as he had done from the beginning.
~ John Calvin
Circumference = nowhere; center point = everywhere.
~ John Crowley
There are no distinctions at all any more, as far as entertainments are concerned, it's big and beautiful everywhere where we are. It would be a great help to us, if we could be everywhere at the same time. And here it is already, your entertainment!
~ Elfriede Jelinek
From Zeus let us begin, whom we mortals never leave unnamed: full of Zeus are all streets and all gathering places of men, and full are the sea and harbors. Everywhere we all have need of Zeus. For we are also his offspring.
~ Aratus