Quotes About Presence

Where true inner freedom is, there is God. And where God is, there we want to be.

I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself; my existence depends on the nearness and the presence of God.

In cathedral or cottage, the art of worship is an inner adventure; it is the personal practice of the presence of God.

Wherever faith has eyes to see, there is a smiling presence of the Son of God.

When the eyes of the soul looking out meet the eyes of God looking in, heaven has begun right here on earth.

Don't think that some tomorrow you'll see God's Light. You see it now or err in darkest night.

If I haven't received any grace today, then I was not at home. This is because God is sending deliveries constantly.

I have picked up on the terminology of Brother Lawrence, who called praying unceasingly practicing God's presence. In fact, practicing God's presence has been my number one goal for the last year

God does not always heal us instantly the way we think. He is not a jack-in-the-box God. But God is walking with me through this.

We become contemplatives when God discovers Himself in us.

My God, I pray better to you by breathing and walking than by talking, just as in choir I sing best when I am thinking about something else, or better still, praying.

God made a whole beautiful earth and decided to put you in it, to experience all of this beauty. You can't do that watching television all the time.

Christianity = me moving out, God moving in.

God himself does not give answers. He gives himself.

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

The highest condition of the religious sentiment is when. . . the worshiper not only sees God everywhere, but sees nothing which is not full of God.

God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful.

When we honestly ask God the 'why' question, He doesn't give us answers as much as He gives us Himself.

This is where God hangs out.

We may forget him, but God will never forget us. We're forever on his mind and in his plans.

There is in the soul a something in which God dwells, and there is in the soul a something in which the soul dwells in God.

I feel the presence of God when I feel the essence of divinity in anything and everything around me.

I do believe that the Kingdom of God is present wherever Jesus is king. That's my definition of the Kingdom of God.

There is a strain of loneliness infecting many Christians, which only the presence of God can cure.