Quotes About Presence

Love's secret is always lifting its head out from under the covers — "Here I am!"

Lightning, your presence from ground to sky, no one knows what becomes of me, when you take me so quickly.

When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.

Maybe it's just the morning light, but he looks pretty cool standing there with his sword.

Her face was her chaperone.

It was as if Jed had moved from one dimension to another. His original dimension hadn't reported him missing, and his new dimension didn't acknowledge his presence. Maybe what he'd really done was end up somewhere between the two. Some days he almost felt invisible.

This would have once been a place for contemplation. He looked up at the towers surrounding him. Many of the dead bodies had been removed. Their places had been taken by the living.

We three, We're not alone, We're not even company— My echo, My shadow, And me…

People had a wonderful feeling with him of being in the presence of a great man.'[

True happiness lies in being compassionate and appreciating the world and our circumstances, rather than being coldhearted and greedy. We often realize too late that our favorite moments are those spent simply with the people we love. In seeing the miracles that unfold around us every day. Eventually we all come to understand that our happiness is derived from being present in the moment. Why wait until the end of your life to discover this Truth?

The stillness and silence shrouding Papá was the most complete I'd ever experienced. The silence came from where his breathing used to be. But it wasn't only his breathing that was missing. It was his presence.

It turned out that while you were searching for the meaning of life, you missed the experience of being alive.

Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.

If I cannot give my children a perfect mother I can at least give them more of the one they've got--and make that one more loving. I will be available. I will take time to listen, time to play, time to be home when they arrive from school, time to counsel and encouerage.

El permitirnos desear con desesperación algo que no estamos seguros que podamos obtener, nos atemoriza; especialmente cuando se trata de algo esencial, como la presencia de Dios en nuestras vidas.

Discernment, in a most general sense, is the capacity to recognize and respond to the presence and the activity of God—both in the ordinary moments and in the larger decisions of our lives.

la historia de Elías me invitó a dejar de intentar combatir el cansancio y rendirme a él en la presencia del Señor.

Dios sabe cuánto necesitamos nosotros estar juntos «más allá de las palabras». Por eso es que espera con paciencia que dejemos de movernos agitadamente y nos relajemos para poder recibir la nutrición de su presencia.

La práctica de analizar mi día con Dios se arraiga en las antiguas prácticas cristianas del examen de estado de conciencia (revisar el día pasado para percibir la presencia de Dios) y del examen de conciencia (notar mi respuesta, o falta de ella, a esa presencia).

Aprender a escuchar al cuerpo, a darle descanso y a respetarlo como un lugar en el que Dios nos hace conocer su presencia, se convierte entonces en una importante disciplina para el peregrino espiritual.

But times of solitude and silence are not times for judging. They are times for noticing — noticing what is true about us in a given moment and then being in God's presence with the things we've noticed.

We are starved for quiet, to hear the sound of sheer silence that is the presence of God himself.

Holy One, there is something I wanted to tell you, but there have been errands to run, bills to pay, meetings to attend, washing to do ... and I forget what it is I wanted to say to you, and forget what I am about or why. Oh God, don't forget me please, for the sake of Jesus Christ.

What are these things that draw toward us, these visitors that hide among us