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Quotes About Presence

When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.
~ George Eliot
God shows us he loves us by giving us access to himself.
~ Jennifer Rothschild
God dwells within me. As me.
~ Julia Roberts
And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children.
~ Khalil Gibran
The importance of coming into God's presence is worth overcoming all obstacles along the way.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
The vision of the Divine presence ever takes the form which our circumstances most require.
~ Alexander MacLaren
Daylight is nobody's friend. God comes in like a landlord and flashes on his brassy lamp.
~ Anne Sexton
The indwelling presence and power of the Spirit are to be sought and received by faith in God's word of promise.
~ Asa Mahan
We are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense.
~ Teresa of Avila
God Himself begins to live in me not only as my Creator but as my other and true self.
~ Thomas Merton
I have never come away from you without reflecting that the Spirit of God and His holy workings reside in you.
~ Vincent de Paul
Virtually every spiritual tradition teaches that your higher self is the presence of God within you.
~ Wayne Dyer
It feels like God visits everywhere else, but lives in Africa.
~ Will Smith
The best reason to pray is that God is really there. In praying our unbelief starts to melt. God moves smack into the middle of even an ordinary day.
~ Emily Giffin
To die is to be with the Lord. It is not just an idea, it is a reality.
~ Francis Schaeffer
God is actually inside. He lives in our hearts.
~ George Harrison
As it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in Him.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Wherever you have seen God pass, mark that spot, and go and sit in that window again.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
God is a presence that I can never define but I could never deny.
~ John Shelby Spong
When you awaken, you will see that this is Heaven on Earth, and everything in physical form is the body of God.
~ Leonard Jacobson
God's entire divine nature is wholly and entirely in all creatures, more deeply, more inwardly, more present than the creature is to itself.
~ Martin Luther
God is nearer to me than I am to myself; He is just as near to wood and stone, but they do not know it.
~ Meister Eckhart
All that God asks you most pressingly is to go out of yourself … and let God be God in you
~ Meister Eckhart
We look for God as though he were not already here.
~ Merrit Malloy