Quotes About Presence

Do you know how much you're missing in the moment by always wishing you were somewhere else?

Most animals show themselves sparingly. The grizzly bear is six to eight hundred pounds of smugness. It has no need to hide. If it were a person, it would laugh loudly in quiet restaurants, boastfully wear the wrong clothes for special occasions, and probably play hockey.

Just as it did when I spoke to you that day from the phone, your face comes into focus more and more as I hold you here beside me.

There is the constant temptation to relate to the iPhone rather than our world. It is a convenient filter for screening calls, keeping colleagues at a manageable distance. It provides a safe place to hide when we're anxious in a crowd. We avoid awkward moments by fading into our phone. It prompts us to look down rather than up, to ask Siri for answers rather than our friends, our parents, or our God.

Significantly for place, Barth asserts that "God grants him His own presence, i.e., Himself as the Co-inhabitant of this place."[113] From this perspective place is never fully place without God as a co-inhabitant.

David cuts through all the many needs, wants, and desires that may have been bouncing around inside him and essentially says, "If I could have only one thing, I want to be with God, to be in His presence, to know that he is always with me." Whether in good times or bad times, David knew the thing he needed most: to feel God's presence close by, intimately, through worship.

Wherever you are, be all there.

Rather than worrying about work, schedules, and deadlines, I felt at peace with God. He was in control. The world at large would not crumble because I turned off my iPhone. This is how it's supposed to be. For the first time in who knows how long, I felt like myself. Fully alive. Fully present. And fully aware of God's goodness.

She said, "Right now, while we have this time, I'm not going to do any of that other stuff. I'm going to seize this moment and simply enjoy being with Jesus while I can." Mary made a deliberate choice. She wasn't being lazy and using company as an excuse to get out of helping her sister with chores. She was choosing to focus on what mattered the most.

We live aware of God moment by moment. He is not part of our lives; He is our life.

You have help that others might not see. An invisible power gives you strength when you feel weak. You have God's grace, God's power, God's comfort, and God's presence.

The best explanation I can give you is this: it is what God does through a rare combination of these qualities found in his people: • Passion for his presence • A deep craving to reach the lost • Sincere integrity • Spirit-filled faith • Down-to-earth humility • Brokenness

Our minds are so cluttered with endless to-do lists that there's no room for us to experience the joy in being alive today.

Make sure that the person you're in the room with is the most important person in the world when you're together.

What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me.

No form of submission to God could be simpler or clearer than just showing up at church on Sunday.

If no one remembered them, were they ever really here?

This is how it will defeat you, by distracting you - it is like life, you can live it or be continually distracted until you are surprised to discover that like smoke from a dead fire, it is gone.

torpedo, too, either missed the target or failed to explode. Undaunted, Prien then headed southward, away from the Royal Oak, to reload his bow tubes. An hour later, just past 1:00 a.m., with the crew of the battleship still no wiser about his presence, he returned to fire three more torpedoes.

If we must "feel" God's presence before we believe he is with us, we again reduce God to our ability to grasp him, making him an idol instead of acknowledging him as God.

You know, sometimes you look at me with longing... ... even though I'm here with you.

Luke 17:21, which says, "Neither shall they say, Lo here! Or, lo there! For, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

You have to live in the world to say anything meaningful about it.

Pero lo más innovador fue que la reina obtuvo del papa Clemente X el levantamiento de la prohibición a la presencia de las mujeres en los espectáculos artisticos. Sobre Cristina de Suecia.