Quotes about Omnipresence

If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks.

The question, how the saints and the Virgin Mary can hear so many thousands of prayers addressed to them simultaneously in so many different places, without being clothed with the divine attributes of omniscience and omnipresence, did not disturb the faith of the people. The scholastic divines usually tried to solve it by the assumption that the saints read those prayers in the omniscient mind of God. Then why not address God directly?

In a certain sense, everything is everywhere at all times. For every location involves an aspect of itself in every other location. Thus every spatio-temporal standpoint mirrors the world.

Wayne Grudem, my friend and seminary professor, put it well: "God does not have size or spatial dimensions and is present at every point of space with His whole being, yet God acts differently in different places."

God is too large to be housed under one roof.

We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.

Called or not, God is always there.

There is no place where God is not.

There is no place to which we could flee from God, which is outside of God.

God is everywhere and in everything and without Him we cannot exist.

God is behind everything, but everything hides God.

God is omnipresent; even a pebble in the Narmada can represent Him and serve as an object of worship.