Quotes About Presence

Prayer is thinking deeply about something in the presence of God.

The question is never ''Does God speak?'' but rather ''Am I listening?'' To best hear what God has to say to you, you must still your heart. Set aside your pressing demands. Turn off all your electronic distractions. Rarely does God shout to make himself heard!

Worship begins with my daily times before His throne, listening to His heart. And, when I leave, I expect to live differently because of what I just heard. It is often a whisper you will hear from the King

What sets God's people apart from everyone else is not our accoutrements or our language. It won't be our music, our programs, or our bumper stickers. It will be the presence of the Lord . . . His hand being upon us.

The purpose of grace is to grant us access into his presence every day. Grace qualifies us for the relationship we could never earn on our merits.

Sabbath is more than the absence of work; it is not just a day off, when we catch up on television or errands. It is the presence of something that arises when we consecrate a period of time to listen to what is most deeply beautiful, nourishing, or true. It is time consecrated with our attention, our mindfulness, honoring those quiet forces of grace or spirit that sustain and heal us.

Life is not a problem to be solved, it is a gift to be opened.

As long as there is a 'you' doing or not-doing, thinking or not-thinking, 'meditating' or 'not-meditating' you are no closer to home than the day you were born.

My heart stopped. It just stopped beating. And for the first time in my life, I had that feeling. You know, like the world is moving all around you, all beneath you, all inside you, and you're floating. Floating in midair. And the only thing keeping you from drifting away is the other person's eyes. They're connected to yours by some invisible physical force, and they hold you fast while the rest of the world swirls and twirls and falls completely away.

Sit and be still until in the time of no rain you hear beneath the dry wind's commotion in the trees the sound of flowing water among the rocks, a stream unheard before, and you are where breathing is prayer.

Ask the world to reveal its quietude not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which birdsongs, trees, bellworts, snails, clouds, storms become what they are, and are nothing else.

I have never been able to separate Jesus from my sense of God present as Spirit or from God who transcends categories, affirmations, analysis, and apprehension.

What is essential is invisible to the eye.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

IT WAS ME. I'M STANDING RIGHT NEXT TO YOU! IT WAS MY FAULT THEY STOPPED GIVING TOURS.

I made sure to pay attention to everything I was doing. To be fully in the moment. Because that's all life is, really, a string of moments that you knot together and carry with you. Hopefully most of those moments are wonderful, but of course they won't all be. The trick is to recognize an important one when it happens.

YO SOY LA MAGNA VICTORIOSA PRESENCIA CONQUISTADORA, MANIFESTANDO AHORA LA PERFECCIÓN A TRAVÉS DE MI CUERPO FÍSICO, Y EL LOGRO VICTORIOSO EN MIS ASUNTOS DIARIOS, DE ACUERDO CON EL PLAN DIVINO", y "YO SOY

and all I ever really wonder is if you think about me when I'm not there.

Instead of shunning the darkness, we can face straight into it with an open mind. When we do that, the unknown changes. Fearful things become understandable and a truth is suggested: the enigmatic presence of the human mind winks back from the dark. WHITLEY STRIEBER, COMMUNION

You seem to be devoting your entire vacation to the construction of memories. Perhaps you should put away the camera and enjoy the moment, even if it is not very memorable?

The meaning of life is not something we look for, it is something we create. And by contemplating suicide, we can be fully present at our own creation.

God only allows his Divine Presence to rest on someone who is strong, wealthy, wise, and humble.

Work without working, and play without playing. Do without doing, and be without being. To live an effortless life, simply be yourself.

This moment is the only thing that's real. Worrying about the future and lamenting the past only crowds out the beauty of what is happening now.