Quotes about Presence

She felt as if love was all about her and around her, breathed out from some great, invisible, hovering Tenderness. One couldn't be afraid or bitter where love was - and love was everywhere.

How sad it is when someone comes to you looking for Jesus and all they see is you.

Infinity is present in each part. A loving smile contains all art. The motes of starlight spark and dart. A grain of sand holds power and might.

The Sabbath is the most precious present mankind has received from the treasure house of God. All week we think: The spirit is too far away, and we succumb to spiritual absenteeism, or at best we pray: Send us a little of Thy spirit. On the Sabbath the spirit stands and pleads: Accept all excellence from me.

The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments. In a religious experience, for example, it is not a thing that imposes itself on man but a spiritual presence. 5 What is retained in the soul is the moment of insight rather than the place where the act came to pass. A moment of insight is a fortune, transporting us beyond the confines of measured time.

The Sabbath is the presence of God in the world, open to the soul of man." God is not in things of space, but in moments of time.

We must not forget that it is not a thing that lends significance to a moment; it is the moment that lends significance to things.

To be a Jew is to renounce allegiance to false gods; to be sensitive to God's infinite stake in every finite situation; to bear witness to His presence in the hours of His concealment; to remember that the world is unredeemed. We are born to be an answer to His question.

God is not in things of space, but in moments of time.

The plea is not to obey what He wills but to do what He is.

Is not a thing that lends significance to a moment; it is the moment that lends significance to things.

Unless we are involved, the problem is not present.