Quotes About Presence

Concentration is not the approach towards God. Concentration is a mind approach. God is everywhere, so you have to relax, you have to be meditative.

When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.

This moment of dawning is called taqwa - God-consciousness, and ihsan - awareness. Suddenly you know that God can see you and knows you, even if you do not know or see Him.

It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.

Do you not see the Madonna always beside the tabernacle?

Talk about God can become dreary and lackluster if God isn't in you.

It's a paradise that we are going to go into, because to be in the presence of God itself will be a paradise.

I believe that God is with you, that there is a presence. I believe this God is for you. I don't think the universe is a cold, dead place that is indifferent.

Are you satisfied being filled with good information about God, or do you long to burst into His manifest presence?

God dwells in His creation and is everywhere indivisibly present in all His works. He is transcendent above all His works even while He is immanent within them.

If in our Saturday pursuits we're far from God's presence, we're not in very good shape to worship Him on Sunday.

Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things

When we pray, it's the Holy Spirit Who makes the divine presence real to our spirits, and then we seem to 'feel close' to a living God. We are spiritually overwhelmed by divine glory.

God is not someone or something separate but is the suchness in each moment, the underlying reality.

The very fact that we have access to God's attention and presence should concentrate the thoughts and elevate the heart.

The point is to raise your voice and be heard to God. You really are just celebrating being in the presence of other people that believe the same things you believe.

I think God surrounds us, in all different manifestations of the energy.

God is not pre or post anything. He is present to everything. ... There is not predestination but destination, not predestiny but destiny. This follows from divine omniscience and eternity.

Prayer is - keeping company with God.

You search for God, and seek to find Him here. Or you seek to find Him there. Why need you to look in the corners of the room when He entirely fills the room?

He who knows what it is to enjoy God will dread His loss; he who has seen His face will fear to see His back.

Where God's presence is no longer a tenable proposition and where his absence is no longer a felt, indeed overwhelming weight, certain dimensions of thought and creativity are no longer attainable.

One of the things that makes God different from people is that God is always available to listen.

Invoked or not invoked, the god is present.