Quotes About Presence

God is at home. We are in the far country.

Whoever possesses God in their being has Him in a divine manner, and He shines out to them in all things; for them all things taste of God and in all things it is God's image that they see.

There is no need to look for God here or there. He is no farther away than the door of your own heart.

Now, you might say: how can this be? I cannot feel his presence in any way. Listen to this. Sensing his presence is not in your power but in his. He will show himself when it suits him to do so, and he can also remain hidden if that is his wish. This is what Christ meant when he said to Nicodemus: 'The spirit breathes where it will: you hear its voice but do not know where it comes from, or where it is going' (John 3:8).

Only those for whom God is present in all things and who make the very best use of their reason, know what true peace is and truly possess heaven.

You should be like those who at all times watch and wait for their Lord' (Luke 12:36). Truly, such vigilant people are alert and on the watch for their Lord for whom they wait; they look to see if he is not by chance concealed in what befalls them, however strange it may be to them.

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time.

Pay heed to this, how you are turned toward your God, when you are in church or in your cell. Maintain this same state of mind and bear it among the crowd and into unrest and dissimilarity.

God is equally near to everything and every place and is equally ready to give himself, so far as in him lies, and therefore a person shall know him aright who knows how to see him the same, under all circumstances.

Yet the now of time is infinitesimally small. If you remove the now of time, you are in all places and possess all time.

Where I will nothing for myself, there wills instead my God.

To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.

God works with neither a medium nor an image, and the more you are without images, the more susceptible you will become to his work, and the more you forget and go within yourself, the closer you will be to him.

Master Shunryu Suzuki in his classic Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind.

That's it, baby, if you've got it, flaunt it.

Slowness seems to be a key element in living a rich life. I don't mean rich in the sense of money. I mean rich in the ability to feel things as they're happening, to not constantly be thinking of the next thing.

Do I have to be here to belong to you?' Froi asked. 'Can't I belong to you wherever I am?

And it was this image that was stamped on the hearts and minds of all who were present that day. Of Froi of the Exiles holding the future of Lumatere in his hands.

I look over to the other side of the road and watch Griggs as he walks. It's a lazy walk but so full of confidence that you want to be standing behind him all the way.

Hold my hand,' she said, sobbing against him. "Hold my hand because I might disappear

One day Tate was there, a ghost of Tate

Hold my hand because I might disappear.

Do you think people have noticed that I'm around?" "I notice when you're not. Does that count?

The girl's arms jutted out at awkward angles, not quite hands on the hips belligerent but not relaxed either, as if they weren't all the way under the girl's control. "I came to find you." "I didn't know. If I'd known..." "It doesn't matter now." The girl's attention was unwavering. "This is where you are.