Quotes About Presence

To live is so startling, it leaves but little room for other occupations...

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize... a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of [your child]...

Let nothing come between you and the light.

Having spent the better part of my life trying either to relive the past or experience the future before it arrives, I have come to believe that in between these two extremes is peace.

If you're always racing to the next moment, what happens to the one you're in?

If you worry about what might be, and wonder what might have been, you will ignore what is.

Don't just do something — sit there!

The Face we choose to miss, Be it but for a day – As absent as a hundred years When it has rode away.

I miss you always and every day But when I search my heart for you I find that you never went away

Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

You can't exist with nature without patience because everything in nature happens with such an easy, flowing manner. You get out of step, and you miss it. It's gone.

If without you I gather a rose, it turns thorn, But when you come back again, through you We return to fragrant and pink and petaled.

At a certain point, some of us just sit down and watch the rest of our lives go by. Don't let it happen to you!

It is the flow of a communal action that is full of the overflowing grace of God, present in gestures and concrete signs as well as in words.

I am so very absent. The world is overcrowded with my absence. Life is where I am not. No matter where I am…

But the day will come when you will have to answer for it! You know I didn't come here alone to-day——!" Both men looked startled and glanced uneasily into the shadows, as if there might be someone lurking there. "God came with me and He knows! He'll make you remember some day!

It would be well, in our praying, to sometimes lift the head and see whether the answer to our prayers is not shining in the heavens or standing joy-clothed beside us, or even lying at our feet waiting to be recognized.

A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.

Diante dos juazeiros, Fabiano apressou-se. Sabia lá se a alma de Baleia andava por ali, fazendo visagem?

I am a man who is come. I am a man who is here. I bring nothing but myself and will take away nothing but myself when I leave. But I will do my very best to leave something behind.

She couldn't see him, but his voice was like light through a stained-glass window in a cathedral.

Just because you can't see them and you can't hear them, that doesn't mean they're not here.

Somewhere, all the people we have loved and lost are still among us, in the house that we call history.

When God's people begin to praise and worship Him using the Biblical methods He gives, the power of His presence comes among His people in an even greater measure.