Quotes About Presence

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour.

You have got to own your days and live them, each one of them, every one of them, or else the years go right by and none of them belong to you.

Each day, each hour, an entire life.

The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

One must learn a different... sense of time, one that depends more on small amounts than big ones.

Those who face that which is actually before them, unburdened by the past, undistracted by the future, these are they who live, who make the best use of their lives; these are those who have found the secret of contentment.

Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

Every day is a messenger of God.

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

When you've got the personality, you don't need the nudity.

The goal of prayer is the ear of God, a goal that can only be reached by patient and continued and continuous waiting upon Him, pouring out our heart to Him and permitting Him to speak to us. Only by so doing can we expect to know Him, and as we come to know Him better we shall spend more time in His presence and find that presence a constant and ever-increasing delight.

Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn to fling the door wide back and let God in, you will work on a wrong level all day; but swing the door wide open and pray to your Father in secret, and every public thing will be stamped with the presence of God.

There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are.

Prayer is something deeper than words. It is present in the soul before it has been formulated in words. And it abides in the soul after the last words of prayer have passed over our lips.

There come times when I have nothing more to tell God. If I were to continue to pray in words, I would have to repeat what I have already said. At such times it is wonderful to say to God, "May I be in Thy presence, Lord? I have nothing more to say to Thee, but I do love to be in Thy presence."

Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine.

Our Father, let the spirit of gratitude so prevail in our hearts that we may manifest thy Spirit in our lives.

Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving.

Granting that we are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense; for they, as it were, see that He is looking upon them, while others may go for days on end without even once recollecting that God sees them.

Security is not the absence of danger, but the presence of God, no matter what the danger.

If you walk, just walk. If you sit, just sit. But whatever you do, don't wobble.

Remember that everything has God's fingerprints on it.

God dwells wherever man lets Him in.

Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it lives.