Quotes About God's presence

One Japanese translation of Psalm 22:3 reads, "When God's people praise Him, He brings a big chair and sits there.

The first moments of the new day are not the time for our own plans and worries, not even for our zeal to accomplish our own work, but for God's liberating grace, God's sanctifying presence.

My feeling has been that once we're actually in God's presence, we will never return to earth again, because it will be empty and meaningless by comparison

When God's moving his hands through your life, you had better sit up and take notice

You have to look for the joy. Look for the light of God that is hitting your life, and you will find sparkles you didn't know were there.

Gratitude has a big job to do in us and our hearts. It is one of the chief ways that God infuses joy and resilience into the daily struggle of life.

Matthew Henry says that to walk with God is "to set God always before us, and to act as those that are always under his eye. It is to live a life of communion with God both in ordinances and providences. It is to make God's word our rule and his glory our end in all our actions."5

to heaven, He is there, and if I make my bed in the grave, He is there, too. If I take the wings of the dawn and settle on the other side of the sea, even there His hand will lead me, and His right hand will lay hold of me.'" The words of the psalm

Wherever I go, God rules. When I walk on White House grounds, God walks on White House grounds. I have every right and authority to declare the White House holy ground, because I was standing there and where I stand is holy.

one's deepest sense of freedom is coincident with an embrace of the God who is the ground of one's being.

At midnight, Paul and Silas were . . . singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. – Acts 16:25

The God of the philosophers disappeared behind the world, because he was described in the third person, and not addressed in the second.

flowers, or our feet from dancing. If you don't meet God along the way, you'll never meet God at the destination. That's the dynamic tension.

Thus would it be with a man if, while remaining within the bounds of human reason, experience and feelings, he were suddenly to see God Himself. He would see Him but would not understand, even though he knew that it was God, and he would tremble with inconceivable sufferings of incomprehension.

Play is an expression of God's presence in the world; one clear sign of God's absence in society is the absence of playfulness and laughter.

God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.

Just as the Atman (Soul) is the reality underlying the conscious powers of an individual, so the Supreme Soul (God) is the eternal quiet underneath the drive and activity of the universe.

The Ego is a veil between humans and God'." "In prayer all are equal.

We live in a spiritual Universe. God is in, through, around and for us.

The heavens shine on us, but God shines in us.

Love is God's shadow as He strolls through the universe.

Evil is the absence of God.

We know from the New Testament that our bodies are temples of the Lord. We, too, are divided into three parts—spirit, soul, and body (1 Thess. 5:23). God's presence through His Holy Spirit dwells in the innermost part of our being—our spirit. As we work our way through the tabernacle, we will discover how each part not only points to a heavenly reality, but also depicts and points to Christ. "Christ is the perfect Tabernacle. In Him is fulfilled all that

Jonathan loved Sarah's beauty, but attributed her attractiveness to the fullness of God in her soul. To call theirs love at first sight would be to mislead most modern readers. These two fell in love with the image and glory of God they saw in each other.