Quotes About Presence

The main thing about the Globe is there's 700 people all standing right in front of you.

When I go home, I got a kid; I don't really spend a lot of time thinking about the character or anything that may or may not happen.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

When I'm performing, I have to tell myself, 'Wait a minute. You need to be here right now. You need to hold these memories and remember time is golden.'

When we say 'Blackpink in your area,' we're literally saying we're in your area with good music, with good energy - we're here for you.

I'm focused on the good things and that makes you really appreciate what you are doing with the team and the time you are out there on the court.

You've got to be this massive entity on stage, and just bring people in and make them have a good time.

And let me ask you this: the dead, where aren't they?

So we sit there together the mountain and me, Li Po said, until only the mountain remains.

In real life it's the living who haunt you. — Franz Wright, from section 1 of "Observations," Earlier Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 2007)

There is a feeling of disbelief that comes over you, that takes over, and you kind of go through the motions. You do what you're supposed to do, but in fact you're not there at all.

God himself does not give answers. He gives himself.

Listen to your life. All moments are key moments.

Whether you call on him or don't call on him, God will be present with you.

Listen. Your life is happening. You are happening. Think back on your journey. The music of your life...

Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.

It is not objective proof of God's existence that we want but, whether we use religious language for it or not, the experience of God's presence.

It hardly matters how the body of Jesus came to be missing because in the last analysis what convinced the people that he had risen from the dead was not the absence of his corpse but his living presence. And so it has been ever since.

I believe that whether we recognize him or not, or believe in him or not, or even know his name, again and again he comes and walks a little way with us along whatever road we're following. And I believe that through something that happens to us, or something we see, or somebody we know--who can ever guess how or when or where?--he offers us, the way he did at Emmaus, the bread of life, offers us new hope, a new vision of light that not even the dark world can overcome.

It is out of the absence of God that God makes himself present

As I understand it, to say that God is mightily present even in such private events as these does not mean that he makes events happen to us which move us in certain directions like chessmen. Instead, events happen under their own steam as random as rain, which means that God is present in them not as their cause but as the one who even in the hardest and most hair-raising of them offers us the possibility of that new life and healing which I believe is what salvation is.

I did not see anything because I was so caught up in an inner dialogue. So, stop and see. Become more sensitive, more aware, more alive to our own humanness, to the humanness of each other.

The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. It's for you I created the universe. I love you.