Quotes About Presence

He felt himself at last beginning to be a teacher, which was simply a man to whom his book is true, to whom is given a dignity of art that has little to do with his foolishness or weakness or inadequacy as a man. It was a knowledge of which he could not speak, but one which changed him, once he had it, so that no one could mistake its presence.

The past gathered out of the darkness where it stayed, and the dead raised themselves to live before him; and the past and the dead flowed into the present among the alive, so that he had for an intense instant a vision of denseness into which he was compacted and from which he could not escape, and had no wish to escape.

But for a little while," Francine said, "you will be here;

How many people could say truthfully their god was a few feet away from them, made flesh, and that heaven was to be by his side?

Lamentations 2:19 states, "Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord.

It is a funny thing that for most men the whitest conscience is no protection from some apprehension in the presence of police.

He was once an abstract Grandeur which I struggled more in fear than love to please. He has become a living Presence, dear and real

How very still you sit!

It is true she liked him most when he wasn't there, but then she usually liked everybody most when they weren't there.

And then there are my friends, and they have their own lives. While they like to talk everything through, to analyze and hypothesize, what I really need, what I'm really looking for, is not something I can articulate. It's nonverbal: I need love. I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on. And I know it's around me somewhere, but I just can't feel it.

I think there's too much mult-tasking going on. I think people need to quiet down and focus and be still more.

I just wish we could hold on to that sense of wonder because sometimes we don't notice some of the most incredible things in the world. We walk by beautiful flowers and trees every day without looking at them. We rush through our day without even saying hi to most of the people we see. We take a lot for granted, and I think that's why some people say it's better to live each day as our last. That way we might start appreciating more things around us.

But what's important is that you enjoy and appreciate every day, and that's something you can accomplish by just living in the moment. Don't look behind you. Unless someone yells, "Look out behind you!" Then you should definitely look behind you because there's a good chance a Frisbee is being thrown at your head or, if you're in a movie, an attractive teenage vampire is about to attack you.

So with us; by idle talk, evilspeaking, or neglect of prayer, we may in one day lose the Saviour's presence, and it may take many days of sorrowful search to find Him, and regain the peace that we have lost.

Emmanuel, God with us." This means everything to us. What

Wherever he was, God was with him, giving him words to speak and power to work miracles.

Not that I want to be thin. Heaven forbid. I do not want to take up less space in the world. I should like to take up more...

When we notice new things, we become mindful, and mindfulness begets more mindfulness. The more mindful we become, the more we see ourselves as white shirts and the easier it is to find the red spot and remove it. Attending

I would like to do whatever it is that presses the essence from the hour.

Grace sat down where the chair wasn't.

I can't leave you behind. You're with me all the time.

well, it sounds strange, but when i think of God, i think of a soft whirring noise - like a spinning ball of energy - something i can tap into when i need it.

He rarely saw a doorway without advancing through it as if he owned it. Since he owned a good many doorways, he would have pointed out that this was a reasonable assumption.

He was fiercely beautiful in the way some young males are, as if their whole being were being lived through their eyes, and their large noses, and their ungainly limbs.