Quotes About Presence

Long experience had taught him that fear lay in the next moment, not in this one.

L'invisibilità è la qualità fondamentale di un voltapagine: in scena, egli deve cercare di cancellare il più possibile la sua presenza, dando l'impressione che le pagine si voltino da sole. Il voltapagine ha il raro privilegio di sentire un pianista quasi come sente se stesso: sentire il suo canto sommesso, i gemiti che di quando in quando gli sfuggono tra i denti, lo schiocco sordo delle unghie contro i tasti. E non solo sentirlo, ma vederlo; studiarlo.

It doesn't have to be on Valentine's Day. It doesn't have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn't have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn't have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third date. It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirit. It just has to be.

Can the memory of love be worth more than its presence and reality?

The heart, with the other parts removed, were placed in a tin box, which had formerly contained flour, and decently and reverently buried in a hole dug some four feet deep on the spot where they stood. Jacob was then asked to read the Burial Service, which he did in the presence of all.

Did Mom notice you right away?" He shook his head. "Nope." "So what did you do?" "Showed up." "Where?" "Wherever." "So you showed up wherever she was?" "Or wherever she might be." "That must've taken a lot of time," I said. Dad shrugged. "Worth it.

Rather, we stand before the infinite holiness of God, all presumption annihilated in his presence. We are deeply conscious that we do not know him enough to praise him adequately, appreciate him enough to love him as we should, or reverence him enough to serve him as we ought.

It is only a matter of time before his brother's presence fades from his memory, and the immediate reality of bearing all humanity's loathing becomes once more his daily preoccupation.

That is what life meant, a unique presence, and it was essential in every creature.

We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.

God is closer to us than water is to a fish.

He who carries God in his heart bears Heaven with him wherever he goes.

God is always seeking you. Every sunset. Every clear blue sky. Each ocean wave. The starry hosts of night. He blankets each new day with the invitation, 'I am here.'

God breathes through us so completely...So gently we hardly feel it...yet it is our everything.

Salvation is not just something God gives you that is going to bless you after you die, it is having the presence of the lord now.

Finding God in All Things.

You don't need human relationships to be happy, God has placed it all around us.

Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.

If we could condense all the truths of Christmas into only three words, these would be the words: 'God with us.'

Never let the presence of a storm cause you to doubt the presence of God.

The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.

You don't know how to pray? Put yourself in the presence of God, and as soon as you have said, 'Lord, I don't know how to pray!' you can be sure you have already begun.

All Religions are vehicles and a path to God's Divine Presence.

Visitation of God's presence is a byproduct of worship. However, we don't worship in order to gain His presence. He is worthy to be worshipped whether or not He chooses to show up.