Quotes About Presence

He said that if we thought we ould compartmentalize things, we were deluding ourselves. Everyone we meet, every word we speak, every action taken or not taken lives in our longhouse. With us. Always. Never to be expelled or locked away.

At Christmas homes were full of the people there and people not there.

At that point Ms Fox came in and said, "Hello, carry on as if I am not here." Then she lay down on the floor.

The deepest moments of intimacy occur when you're not talking.

another divinity is present at this moment of origins, namely Tartarus.

But what bothers me is that I only accidentally noticed them. What else have I missed? How many times in my life have I been, so to speak, on the back porch, not the front porch? What would have been said to me that I failed to hear? What love might there have been that I didn't feel?

Not lost, but gone before.

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

That," she says, "was never here before.

It's like a telescope. My dad, no matter what he's doing, zooms right in so he can't see anything except what's right there with him at that minute. My mom, she's always on wide angle.

having someone with you when you die should not be a privilege but a right.

As long as I remembered them, then they were still here.

I catalog the breadth of his shoulders, the damp curls at the nape of his neck; the way the tendons in his forearms shift and play as he scrolls through his texts. It's shocking, sometimes, to be confronted with this when a second ago he sat on my shoulders, trying to pull down a star and unravel a thread of the night.

I exist," he said softly.

It seemed to Wren that having a mother had a lot less to do with a few sweaty hours of labor and delivery, and a lot more to do with whose face you always looked for in a crowd.

seeing Darija or doing anything but my

It struck her that dispensing justice was really more about being present and engaged than anything else—unlike

Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.

Don't drive people away with your presence. Your friends shouldn't become afraid and so cautious when they are with you. Let them feel free around you.

Children ran to sit on Jesus' lap. John placed his head on His chest. Nicodemus went to wake Him up at night. Like Jesus, just be a friend in whose presence others can feel loved.

Don't let your friendship stay on the phone; let it be physical. Go visit your friends.

God is a faithful friend; He's always with us.

Make it a goal to visit your friends just for the sake of it, and nothing more.

The power of presence differentiates friends and add great value to friendships.