Quotes About Presence

When I meet you, in that moment, I am no longer a part of your future. I start quickly becoming part of your past. But in that instant, I get to share a part of your present. And you get to share a part of mine. And that is the greatest present of all.

Do you think she's still here?" Jonah asks.

the theater is one of the few places left in the bright and noisy world where we sit in the quiet dark together, to be awake. Ruhl, Sarah. 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write: On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, Children, and Theater (p. 103). Faber & Faber. Kindle Edition.

And I walked across the room past all that was missing, through the door, and into the light that shone like a sweet wide smile over all that was actually there.

Everybody pays the heart lip service, of course, but everybody is more familiar with the absence of love than with its presence and gets so used to the feeling of emptiness that it becomes normal. You don't miss the foundation of feeling until you begin to look for your self and can't find a support in the affects for a self.

But enough of that--here I am. Hineni! How marvelously beautiful it is today. He stopped in the overgrown yard, shut his eyes in the sun, against flashes of crimson, and drew in the odors of catalpa-bells, soil, honeysuckle, wild onions, and herbs.

When finally you're done speaking you're dumb forever after, and when you're through stirring you go still, but this is no reason to decline to speak and stir or to be what you are.

Boys had something else...a sort of swagger about them.

This beauty would remain whether he was here to see it or not.

Saving Thy Gracious Presence, he to me A long-legged grasshopper appears to be, That springing flies, and flying springs, And in the grass the same old ditty sings. Would he still lay among the grass he grows in! Each bit of dung he seeks, to stick his nose in.

Her presence, her fate, her sympathy for me, have power still to extract tears from my withered brain.

Pensar!—exclamé. ¿Qué necesidad tenéis de recordármelo, puesto que, piense o no piense, siempre estáis presente en mi alma?

PATER SERAPHICUS. Higher rise, still higher, growing Stronger imperceptibly, Near the Divine Presence gaining A more perfect purity! What is it the spirit thrives on, What fills the ethereal space? Endless love whose revelation Blitheness brings, eternal bliss.

Schönheit ist überall ein gar willkommener Gast.

When he is by, I could not pray to Heaven.

Men leave only an impression of their

Yes, here within thy sanctified walls there's a soul in each object,

Nur wo du bist sei alles, immer kindlich, So bist du alles, bist unüberwindlich.

But you know you're sounding like a jealous wife? Are you jealous, luv? I find that rather amusing, all things considered." "Don't start laughing too soon, because I'm nothing of the sort." "No?" He was still grinning, prompting her to snap, "Your unexpected presence here smacks of jealousy as well, as in checking up on your wife, but you don't hear me accusing you of it." "I believe you just did.

Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.

This holiday season I learned the vue if presence over presents.

They are not from outer space. There is no need for them to be. They have always been here.

This holiday season has taught me the value of presence over presents. It is good to be home.

A little bunny or some kind of ferret was probably there too, and bore witness as only rodents can.