Quotes About Presence

told me my presence is what he found to be the greatest comfort and so he would fall back to sleep.

Whenever I don't know what to do, I watch what I am doing.

If she was up at the cash register and he was behind his counter, he could still feel the invisible presence of her against him <...> —their inner selves brushing up against the other.

He felt her big presence, and imagined—fleetingly—that an elephant sat next to him, one that wanted to be a member of the human kingdom, and sweet in an innocent way, as though her stubs of forelegs were folded on her lap, her trunk moving just a little as she finished speaking.

believing that in the presence of this person we are safe.

and she seemed to really listen, I could see her listening, and she responded exactly right somehow. I cannot remember what she said, but I remember thinking, Oh, she is right here with me.

Seek God's face always

The Pseudo-Dionysius begins with a seeming paradox. We see God nowhere, and yet God is everywhere. The skeptic and atheist get stuck at the first obvious truth; they fail to push on to the second. The secret is that God's presence is made visible to us not directly but symbolically, in a material world that bears the faint but still perceptible trace of a higher intelligible and spiritual realm.

Zolang wij onze dierbaren om ons heen hebben, houden wij van ze om alles wat ze uitzonderlijk maakt, maar zijn ze weg dan missen wij vooral hun dagelijks doen.

Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.

La vraie vie est absente. Nous ne sommes pas au monde.

The development of wickedness is one thing; the presence of any measure of holiness or virtue is another.

It is in the presence of God alone that the Christian can exert his spiritual energies with effect. Abiding in Christ, maintains us in that presence. A more unhappy error cannot befall a believer than to separate, in the habit of his mind, acquired knowledge from the living Christ.

If restoration and renewal are to come from the presence of the Lord—and what hope is there without them?—then it is men and women like these whom God will use to turn the tide.

El teatro ya no es sólo una comunicación, como la novela o como la poesía, que se recibe asordinadamente y que puede perderse, ni tampoco una simple transmisión de un mensaje por la voz de un orador o de un jugar, que tiene una sola intensidad, una sola nota y una sola vía, sino que, además de todo esto, es el prodigioso encuentro de dos presencias...

The worst part of modern technology is the way it robs you of the found moments. The little discoveries, even intimacy!

The whole city was richer because he was in it, and every street, and turn of a road held the possibility of his appearance.

Right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.

When your daddy walked through the house he was so big he filled it up. That was my first mistake. Not to make him leave room for me.

When he woke up, the dinosaur was still there.

Cuando despertó, el dinosaurio todavía estaba allí.

If there was ever a time to run, it's whenever you see me show up.

The house was an empty tank full of grief. Their empty ghosts floated everywhere they were not.

We were born without memory and we try to complement each other with the presence of the absent.