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Quotes About God's presence

What deadens us most to God's presence within us, I think, is the inner dialogue that we are continually engaged in with ourselves, the endless chatter of human thought.
~ Frederick Buechner
God doesn't owe us an explanation for everything and actually what I've found is that explanations don't comfort. What comforts is the presence of God, not the explanation of God.
~ Rick Warren
Always have the fear of God in your heart, and remember that God is always with you, everywhere, whether you are walking or sitting.
~ Gennadius of Constantinople
The root of all difficulties is a lack of the sense of the Presence of God.
~ Emmet Fox
Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins.
~ Alphonsus Liguori
Nothing bothers the devil more than a Christian delighting in God's presence.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. At no other time have I so sharp an understanding of what God means to do with me as in these hours of dawn.
~ George Washington Carver
Revival is when God's people return to God and God returns to them, and everyone sees the difference.
~ Henry Blackaby
We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Any time, day or night, at home or in the street, wherever we are, we live bathed in God. If we always kept this in mind, it would be impossible to sin.
~ Hélder Câmara
We don't need answers and explanations as much as we need God's presence in and through the suffering.
~ Tullian Tchividjian
A person who wholly follows the Lord is one who believes that the promises of God are trustworthy, that He is with His people, and that they are well able to overcome.
~ Watchman Nee
Unless the Spirit of God is with us, we cannot expect that our prayers will be answered.
~ Dwight L. Moody
Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?
~ Marquis de Sade
In worship, God imparts himself to us.
~ C. S. Lewis
The whole inhabited earth is sacred space in which God lives, breathes, and acts.
~ Carter Heyward
The presence of God is the finest of rewards.
~ Yann Martel
That's how it is sometimes--God comes to your window, all bright light and black wings, and you're just too tired to open it.
~ Dorianne Laux
Just behind the darkness of closed eyes shines the light of God. When you behold that light in meditation, hold onto it with devotional zeal. Feel yourself inside it: That is where God dwells.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.
~ Brian Clough
Whenever God wakes in us, our thinking becomes clear - nothing is missing.
~ Thomas Aquinas
God literally moves his throne from heaven. When this happens the church is building a chair, a seat, a place for God to come.
~ Tommy Tenney
If God were to appear in my room, obviously I would be in awe, but I don't think I would be humble. I might cry, but I think he would dig me like crazy.
~ Marc Bolan
It is [children] who are God's presence, promise and hope for mankind.
~ Marian Wright Edelman