Quotes About Presence

Father, you don't promise we won't experience floods and torrents and fires and flames. But you do promise you will be with us. To know you are near and to know you are good is all we really need. We will go anywhere and do anything as long as we are convinced that you will never leave us, forsake us, abandon us, shame us, or reject us.

Restore to us the joy of your salvation, Jesus. Bring us back to the childlike wonder of our early days of knowing you. May your welcoming heart once again be extended to stranger and friend alike. Oh, to enjoy the favor of those around us simply because you are so clearly in our midst. I pray in your welcoming and renewing name. Amen.

Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus, whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all the things about which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets long ago. (Acts 3:19–21)

At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades…I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination…These people are with me. It's just a stage of your life when the death of people doesn't banish them out of your consciousness, They're part of the light in your head.

The space we stood around had been emptied into us to keep

I used to spend all of my time projecting. I was never in the moment. It was always tomorrow or next week or two months from now. That was one of the reasons I always had this sense of anxiety.

Never waste any amount of time doing anything important when there is a sunset outside that you should be sitting under! - C. JoyBell C.

Very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be.

Your lifetime in form is to be honored and celebrated. Go beyond your enslavement, and live fully in the now, as this is the only time you have.

If you are living in the past or in the future, you will never find a meaning in the present.

One way to express the spiritual crisis of our time is to say that most of us have an address but cannot be found there.

Be courageous and face this moment in time consciously and with all the discernment and clarity within your power.

We have to choose to slow down, to actually see the time and space that we are in. To truly see people and accept them in their priceless moments.

Too often we spend our time in the past or the future. We need to learn to live now - mentally as well as physically and spiritually.

A friend is one who says, I've time, when others have to rush.

I don't think of myself all the time.

Each time you stay present with fear and uncertainty, you're letting go of a habitual way of finding security and comfort.

I'm ALIVE. Thinking about it, noticing it, is new. You do things and don't watch. Then all of a sudden you look and see what you're doing and it's the first time, really.

Move too quickly and time will pass you by.

If you are with someone who is awesome and having a good time, you can sit at a bus station and still have fun.

If I shut my eyes, I believed, I would disappear. To make it through, I had to be present the whole time.

We do not read to pass the time, but to inhabit time.

Every day is a god, each day is a god, and holiness holds forth in time.

It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.