Quotes About Presence

God is in me or else is not at all (does not exist).

If there must be a god in the house, must be, Saying things in the rooms and on the stair, Let him move as the sunlight moves on the floor, Or moonlight, silently, as Plato's ghost Or Aristotle's skeleton. Let him hang out His stars on the wall. He must dwell quietly.

For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds / Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.

The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.

We convince by our presence.

I am the man, I suffer'd, I was there.

Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be…. The presence of the original is the prerequisite to the concept of authenticity.

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.

It is clear that human agents have been at work through the entire traditioning process. They witness to the will, purpose, and presence of YHWH, who remains inscrutably hidden in and through the text and yet who discloses YHWH's own holy self through that same text.

The political agency of YHWH comes, in Israelite tradition, to be a stable, orderly cultic presence, but without surrendering any of the force of agency known in the exodus narrative itself. Thus "glory" becomes a cover term that holds together forceful agency and abiding presence

But the pull of God's largeness summons all of us, often through the words and presence of "the other." The old teaching of exclusion cannot fully protect us from God's pull to be a neighbor.

You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry. Don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

Don't hurry, don't worry. You're here for a short visit. So be sure to stop and smell the flowers.

Mysteriously, God in his providence must make use of our tragedies to remind our fallen human nature of his presence and his love, of the constancy of his concern and care for us. It is not vindictiveness on his part; he does not send us tragedies to punish us for having so long forgotten him. The failing is on our part.

No matter how close to God the soul felt, how blessed it was by an awareness of his presence on occasion, the realities of life were always at hand, always demanding recognition, always demanding acceptance. I had continuously to learn to accept God's will—not as I wished it to be, not as it might have been, but as it actually was at the moment. And it was through the struggle to do this that spiritual growth and a greater appreciation of his will took place.

The presence of a group of African sell-outs is part of the definition of underdevelopment. Any

Just being is the main thing. Anything else is extra.

The empathy we have is founded on the fact that God has put this person in my life. In other word, if this is true this allows me to be present to all kinds of people who I do not like.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

I aimlessly travel, meaning I have no agenda other than to get small in the world, be quiet and observe people.

when the mind is full, the room ceases to be empty

The Spirit is both a builder and a dweller. He cannot dwell where he has not built; He builds to dwell and dwells in only what he has built.

I must first have the sense of God's possession of me before I can have the sense of His presence with me.

I hoped being aware and appreciative would never leave me. I guessed that feeling that way in the moment was appreciation enough.