Quotes About Presence

A newborn baby has only three demands. They are warmth in the arms of its mother, food from her breasts, and security in the knowledge of her presence. Breastfeeding satisfies all three.

The newborn has only three demands. They are warmth in the arms of its mother, food from her breasts, and security in the knowledge of her presence. Breatfeeding satisfies all three.

Your church's online presence is the front door of your church. It has been said that people now visit your church up to ten times before they physically attend a worship service. Your first impression as a church is on social media. Your second impression is your mobile site. Your third impression is your church website. Your next impression is the parking lot/parking team (or lack of).

Guests will visit you online before they visit you in person. Count on it.

the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral

There is no environment where man can flee to escape the revelational presence of God (Ps. 139:8).

Essential Christianity is a definable concept. A thread of its demonstrable presence can be pinpointed in every generation from the time of Christ to the present. This is the fundamental backdrop for church history. If not, then Jesus lied. …teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age. (Matthew 28:20)

Indeed, during their final days the terminally ill are often said to be almost living in two worlds, swapping nonchalantly between chatting with palliative carers and family physically present in the room, and interacting with visions of previously deceased individuals who appear to be – in some way – there to help them through the dying process.

He considered. "When you come into a situation, don't want anything. Don't want approval. Don't want to scare people. Don't want anyone to like you. Don't need to prove anything to them or make them angry. Then you can see what's really happening.

We are everywhere already and always.

In daylight her death had taken on a reality. It lived in the house with them, in the dust on the floors, the blankness of the ceilings, the soft, unanswered noises of his movement past her room. After

I'm not spacing out. I'm just living in the moment.

God would seem to be too occupied in being unable to take Her eyes off of us to spend any time raising an eyebrow in disapproval.

God can get tiny, if we're not careful.

The God, who is greater than God, has only one thing on Her mind, and that is to drop, endlessly, rose petals on our heads. Behold the One who can't take His eyes off of you. Marinate in the vastness of that.

When I'm struggling with the fear of my own death, or with grief over the death of someone I love, what comforts me most isn't philosophies or ideas. It's the presence of someone who loves me just sitting with me silently, letting me feel what I have to feel, not trying to fix it or make it go away but simply being with me while I feel

Some days I think this one place isn't enough. That's when nothing is enough, when I want to live multiple lives and be allowed to love without limits. Those days, like today, I walk with a purpose but no destinations. Only then do I see, at least momentarily, that everything is here. — Gretel Ehrlich, Islands, the Universe, Home (Penguin, 1992)

Don't look now, but there's one man too many in this room, and I think it's you.

Concentration is the doorway through which the meditative state becomes available.

When the patient began speaking, Robert continued, he sounded unlike any person I have ever met before. Sure, his actions signaled that he was crazy, but his presence… Jessica, his presence was like what I imagine it would be to be close to a holy person or a spiritual master. I mean, that is really the only conclusion I can come to. And the holy guy tried to kill himself? Come on Robert. That just sounds ridiculous.

Non si vive «in attesa di una catastrofe», la catastrofe è vivente nell'umanità contemporanea come una divinità terribile nel proprio santuario, e ogni avanzamento della Tecnica è un suo movimento in avanti, un segno della sua attiva, della sua irreprimibile presenza.

Nu pot decat sa-ti promit ca voi fi mereu aici pentru tine, mereu, indiferent ce s-ar intampla. La bucurie si la necaz in bogatie si in saracie Cat timp ma vei dori Eu voi fi aici

El nos habita pese a nosotros

I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue.