Quotes About Presence

Our lives are not just measured in minutes. They are measured in moments—moments when the minutes stand still.

Sometimes God shows up. Sometimes God shows off.

La oración no es algo que tengamos que hacer con los ojos cerrados; nosotros oramos con los ojos bien abiertos. La oración no es una serie de palabras que comienza con un «Amado Jesús» y termina con un «Amén».

La distancia más corta entre tú y Dios es la misma que hay entre tus rodillas y el suelo.

Catholic priest Desiderius Erasmus coined the Latin phrase vocatus atque non vocatus, Deus aderit. Translation: "Bidden or not bidden, God is here.

The true purpose of prayer is to get into God's presence so He can outline His agenda for us.

time is measured in minutes, while life is measured in moments.

After all, prayer is the difference between the best you can do and the best God can do. And that's a big difference! If we hit our knees, the Holy Spirit will do the heavy lifting. If we hit our knees, the Holy Spirit will reveal things that can only be discovered in the presence of God. If we hit our knees, the Holy Spirit will give us God-ideas for our ministry, family, business - for our lives.

When we open our spiritual eyes, we start seeing God everywhere we look. We see the image of God in others. We see His fingerprints on His creation. We see God-ordained opportunities all around us all the time.

without rest, we miss the rest of God: the rest he invites us to enter more fully so that we might know him more deeply. "Be still, and know that I am God." Some knowing is never pursued, only received. And for that, you need to be still.

I discovered that being thankful and experiencing the power and presence of Jesus Christ are tightly entwined. As we practice thankfulness, we experience more of God's transforming grace, God's thereness.

Though there's something more tender, beneath our vanity, our will to become objects of desire: we sweat the mark of our presence onto the cloth.

Christmas Eve, I give him packages which I open for him, since the bows and paper represent more labor than he could manage: music videos by the Nashville singers he thinks particularly sexy, fleece-lined slippers decorated with images of bacon and eggs, and a book about breeds of dogs. He says he wishes he had something for me to open, but I don't want anything except to have him here. There's nothing more he could give me than his life, right now, his being with me.

We make each decision to abandon the practice of holiness because we don't believe that God is present now or because we don't believe he'll show up later.

apparently will be the most attractive, commanding, winsome presence ever to command the world stage. He is alluded to by 33 different appellations in the Old Testament and 13 in the New Testament.

The only way to find out where I was was to get out of the way and let myself happen.

Don't think it, in it.

Make it a point, several times a day, to stop what you are doing and "find" God around you. Pick a moment, such as when you look at your watch, and make that a "God moment." Notice his presence in the obvious things like family pictures on your desk, or the not-so-obvious things like the mess of dishes in the sink - yet another day that he provided your family with food to eat.

He could say nothing. He had no right to be there, he had already been profoundly changed, he was no good at small talk, she was half naked, it was dawn and he loved her.

Yeah, I actually do know where I am.

who was sitting here before him in full flesh and makeup.

Christians who confess that the presence or reign of God was uniquely given, in some mode, with Jesus' presence, are confronted with the need to do a political theology of state terror at the very heart of their Christology and at the heart of their discourse. By

When people are in need, you must be present. When people suffer, you must let them know you're suffering with them." "The good side of bad acts?" I say. "I would not say that from horror comes goodness. That would be giving horror too much credit. But goodness prevails in spite of horror.

The further I wake into this life, the more I realize that God is everywhere and the extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary. Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond, and music is in both the flowing violin and the water dripping from the drainage pipe. Yes, God is under the porch as well as on top of the mountain, and joy is in both the front row and the bleachers, if we are willing to be where we are.