Quotes About God's presence

Church was never intended to be a place where we serve God to the exclusion of meeting with Him.

Revival is: God, gladly at the center of my life, experienced and enjoyed.

No personal quiet time, no Christian book, no community or small group or service can substitute for the absence of God coming down to meet with His church corporately.

Eventually everyone vacates church where God is not obviously present and working. Getting people back to church is pointless unless God comes back first—that's what Vertical Church is all about! Ritual church, tradition church, felt-need church, emotional-hype church, rules church, Bible-boredom church, relevant church, and many other iterations are all horizontal substitutes for God come down, we all get rocked and radically altered, Vertical Church.

Pay attention to physical feelings as well. Recently, I chatted with Matt, a young Jesuit in training, who had just directed a retreat for a group of young adults and spoke with them about how to listen to God. In addition to feelings of peace and comfort, and even inexplicable and incommunicable feelings, Matt added bodily feelings, another indication of God's presence.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." [John 1:1, NIV, ESV]

The Power in you and the Power in me is the God that we do not see.

The world talks so much about God. But little do we really know. God is such an Amazing Power. This Cosmos is His Show.

What about your church prayer meeting? Is it tucked away somewhere because there is a busy program in operation and folks have no time to stop and pray? What would happen if your whole Sunday school gathered together for one hour to wait upon God, to beseech Him to pour out His blessing on your church? Too frequently our programs make no room for God's presence or for His power to work. Churches have plenty of people ready to interfere, but very few willing to intercede.

God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

Humble and simple, he made her see God was accessible.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

I think the reason we sometimes have the false sense that God is so far away is because that is where we have put him. We have kept him at a distance, and then when we are in need and call on him in prayer, we wonder where he is. He is exactly where we left him.

Even al-Hallaj admitted that his experience of unity with God came after a long journey of inward reflection. "Your Spirit mixed with my Spirit little by little," he wrote of God in his Diwan, "by turns, through reunions and abandons. And now I am Yourself. Your existence is my own, and it is also my will.

God must become an activity in our consciousness. JOEL S. GOLDSMITH

It's my experience that we're much more afraid that there might be a God than we are that there might not be.

Each day as we make our plan of what we need to accomplish, let us ask God to love through us. In every deed and action, every errand and responsibility, may His supernatural love be evident in all we say and do... if I am doing a plethora of great activities, but do not show love to the people around me, it is all worthless.

Good God. Men everywhere.

One cannot remember mother and forget God.

God to me is love. It's the ruler of all things, whether it's with a person or with music or with your TV. I feel like it's this energy. God is energy, love is energy.

Christ wears "two shoes" in the world: scripture and nature. Both are necessary to understand the Lord, and at no stage can creation be seen as a separation of things from God.

He who understands nature walks close with God.

The soul hardly ever realizes it, but whether he is a believer or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God.

Where there is peace, God is.