Quotes About Presence

By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.

God's chief gift to those who seek him is Himself.

If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.

However we are, however we think we ought to be in prayer, the fact is we just need to show up and do the best we can do. It's like being in a family.

True contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward prayer.

Abiding fully means praying much.

I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention.

Leadership requires vision, and whence will vision come except from hours spent in the presence of God in humble and fervent prayer?

Use "breath prayers" throughout the day, as many Christians have done for centuries. You choose a brief sentence or a simple phrase that can be repeated to Jesus in one breath: "You are with me."

We can be dry as dust, distracted and insensible to God's presence. Still we can pray...and if we make even the smallest gesture of availability he will be there.

Prayer is happening, and it is not necessarily something that I am doing. God is happening, and I am lucky enough to know that I am in The Midst.

Ten minutes spent in the presence of Christ every day, aye, two minutes, will make the whole day different.

It is in recognizing the actual presence of God that we find prayer no longer a chore but a supreme delight.

Prayer means that we have come boldly into the throne room and we are standing in His presence.

Jesus is never bored in his relationship with you.

Near, far wherever you are...you're here in my heart.

It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and then letting go, just being there.

I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.

As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence.

Mindful time spent with the person we love is the fullest expression of true love and real generosity.

Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

If spacious stillness is missing, the relationship will be dominated by the mind and can easily be taken over by problems and conflict. If stillness is there, it can contain anything.

Could it be that toxic mimics are toxic because they ignore responsibility, they ignore relationship, they ignore presence, they substitute control for fluidity and choice?

What is the relationship between awareness and thinking? Awareness is the space in which thoughts exist when that space has become conscious of itself.