Quotes About Presence

all the disciples of the Lord can feel the fire of His presence within them when they receive His Spirit and learn to be filled with the Spirit.

So I made up my mind to start praising Him more in the Spirit. At first, I did not immediately feel the presence of God come on me. But as time went on, over the course of the next weeks and months, I began to feel the presence of the Lord growing on me.

In this dispensation, the Holy Ghost is the person of the Godhead through whom we can experience the presence of God the most.

The Holy Ghost likes to be invited into our midst.

The Holy Ghost feels welcome when we allow Him to have His way in our lives. Praying in the Holy Ghost is the most common way of inviting Him to be present with us.

While your spontaneous reactions provide the clearest trace of your talents, here are three more clues to keep in mind: yearnings, rapid learning, and satisfactions. Yearnings reveal the presence of a talent, particularly when they are felt early in life.

the distance fills and nearness is a void

I walk reciting every quiet word I know...

it is often more difficult to remember to be mindful than to be mindful itself. (p. 47)

La adoración no se puede calcular ni producir.

If you are a Christian, two people live in your body - you and the Holy Spirit...And the Holy Spirit is not passive within you.

The presence of stocks allows inflows and outflows to be independent of each other and temporarily out of balance with each other.

When we're not busy being somewhere else, more often than not what we participate with is our past or future version of ourselves and our life. Instead of seeing how things actually are, we continue to see them as they once were or as we imagine they will be.

we are practicing to live, not living to practice,

We can assess our practice by asking only whether Yoga practice is building our integrity as a human being and helping us live as an expression of our most noble virtues. Whether our practice strengthens our ability to be present with all that we experience is the only criteria we need for what we do or don't do on the mat.

Very simply, we set aside time and a quiet place to engage in inquiries that will remind us of who we really are. We do this practice as often as necessary for this understanding to become an implicit part of our being. For most of us this means practicing from the first breath to the last.

Yoga is thus not something we can make happen but something that happens to us. But it does not happen by accident.

The only thing that mattered was where I was and who I was with now, and when Will's arms tightened around me I knew I was right where I needed to be all along.

How quickly the brain, the body adapts to this new presence in life; how quickly the brain, the body develops a sense for it, for her--the ebb and flow of Addie's nearness and farness, the awareness of her location, her safety, her comfort and well-being.

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

You're really here." "I really am." It was the nervousness, the hint of vulnerability that had entered her eyes that finally snapped him out of his temporary daze. "Why?" he asked. "I mean, beyond the algebra homework of course." "It's pretty hard algebra. I might need a refresher course." "Kerry--" "I'm here for you," she said.

The reason that extended solitude seemed so hard to endure was not that we missed others but that we began to wonder if we ourselves were present, because for so long our existence depended upon assurances from them.

The people you love never leave you ...

We must practice the presence of God. He said that when two or three are gathered together, there he is in the midst of them. He is with us in our kitchens, at our tables, on our breadlines, with our visitors, on our farms. When we pray for our material needs, it brings us close to his humanity. He, too, needed food and shelter; he, too, warmed his hands at a fire and lay down in a boat to sleep.