Quotes About Presence

She is my wife—because ever since they were children she was like the sky to him, forever around.

Four years? She'd been gone from this world as long as she'd been in it.

ele havia determinado que sentir falta de alguém também era, de certa forma, sentir sua presença.

Here are the long-awaited evenings Here you are. Here am I. Your face the orizon I want to see

phones themselves have the innate power of distancing one from one's physical surroundings, which accounted for part of it

Quand je danse, je danse. Quand je dors, je dors.

let this be our beautiful departure from stagnation; let our minds come alive; enter another dimension; go beyond the stars eagerly struggling to find that... which our naked eyes did not know existed; rise like a falcon born to soar and not be alone but be present amongst others.

He felt her there beside him, just as she had always been on evenings like this when he had called for music, and when her touch on her instrument, or her least word to him, had been so much her own; except that he would have preferred even to this vivid dream her simple reality in the dark.

after thirty years' hostile fellowship with Collie, of course she did quite well understand that collie had a habit of skipping several stages in the logical sequence of her thoughts and would utter apparently disconnected statements, especially when confused by unfamiliar subject or the presence of a man

the pilgrim way only focuses and intensifies our experience, which, when we were home, was diffused by distraction, responsibility, and busyness. Unless we are persons of prayer and uncommon contemplation, our daily lives routinely detour deeper thoughts and a quiet looking at the world around us.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. THOREAU, Walden

as the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas comments, "The Kingdom of God is inside you and all around you … not in a building of wood and stone.

Gods, if they're neglected, tend to fall asleep, but they never really go away.

God lives in the place of praise. If we want to be where He is, we need to go to His address.

True Joy is not the absence of pain but the sanctifying, sustaining presence of the Lord Jesus in the midst of the pain

As we walk through each day, responding to the needs of those around us, we can become physically, emotionally, and spiritually depleted. God has a never-ending supply of grace, strength, and wisdom available that He wants to flow through us to others. And we need to keep coming back into His presence to get our supply replenished.

I didn't know I was in love with her. I only knew that the chapel vibrated when she walked in, and my stomach lurched when she knelt soundlessly behind me. I longed for her touch.

We both just stood there. I let the breeze brush against my skin, the sun release the tension in my muscles. It was as close as I had felt to God in a long time. It's like we're praying, Celeste whispered. Only we're not saying anything.

there is a direct and compelling relationship between the dominance of the values that are intimately tied to triumphant capitalism and the presence of anti-environment views and behaviors.

I knew it wasn't going to help me. It was a warm kind presence in my hands, but with the kindness of a friend who sits with you in comfort by the fire and can't change what's wrong.

It's very easy to claim you've summoned something that's invisible and incorporeal.

My anger's a bad guest, my mother likes to say: comes without warning and stays a long time.

Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.

The days are nouns: touch them The hands are churches that worship the world