Quotes About Presence

For where the church is, there is the Spirit of God, and where the Spirit of God, there is the church and all grace.

If you have God's presence, you have favor. One minute of God's presence can accomplish more than 20 years of your striving.

Have you forgotten God? Even if you have, He has not forgotten you.

Each day is a step we make towards eternity and we shall continue thus to step from day to day until we take the last step, which will bring us into the presence of God.

Picture God nudging you and me awake before dawn because He can hardly wait to be with us.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Even on the cross He did not hide Himself from sight; rather, He made all creation witness to the presence of its Maker.

There is a practice that is most powerful in keeping us united with God. That practice is the constant recollection of His presence.

We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.

What does it matter where we go? Wherever we go, won't we be serving God there? And wherever we go, won't we have Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament with us? Isn't that enough to make us happy?

Such words as 'God' and 'Death' and 'Suffering' and 'Eternity' are best forgotten. We have to become as simple and as wordless as the growing corn or the falling rain. We must just be.

I have found heaven on earth, since heaven is God, and God is in my soul.

We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.

Nothing is far from God.

Each day presents a new opportunity to experience God's presence.

Silence...leads us to make a gift of self rather than a selfishness that has been gift-wrapped ...Silence does not mean running away but rather recollecting ourselves in the open space of God.

Were you indeed not blinded by the Curse Of Self-exile, that still grows worse and worse, Yourselves would know that, though you see him not, He is with you this Moment, on this Spot.

The central aspect of worship is the feeling of being at one with God.

A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present

Do everything as if He were dwelling in us. Thus we shall be His temples and He will be within us as our God - as He actually is.

God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.

The more conscious of God's presence the more I feel like being myself, the less conscious of His presence, the more I feel I need to prove myself.

Scripture is not a concept; scripture is a person (John 1:1,14). When you stand before the Word of God, you are not merely encountering a concept; you are standing face-to-face with God.

The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.