Quotes about Presence

If you are a Christian, two people live in your body - you and the Holy Spirit...And the Holy Spirit is not passive within you.

We must practice the presence of God. He said that when two or three are gathered together, there he is in the midst of them. He is with us in our kitchens, at our tables, on our breadlines, with our visitors, on our farms. When we pray for our material needs, it brings us close to his humanity. He, too, needed food and shelter; he, too, warmed his hands at a fire and lay down in a boat to sleep.

God is never so preoccupied that He is not really listening to you.

God is eavesdropping on us, waiting for us to speak a few words to Him.

God comes to us in the things we know best and cane verify most easily, the things of our everyday life.

True revelation of the fact of the Spirit's indwelling will revolutionize the life of any Christian.

You know people just assume, 'Well, all my life I'll be a worrier.' That doesn't have to be true. There's a way to drink from God's presence so much that worry begins to dissipate.

I don't want my life to be explainable without the Holy Spirit.

The sin of inadvertence, not being alert, not quite awake, is the sin of missing the moment of life-live with unremitting alertness.

Before there was a proper understanding and a sense of God's presence, the idea that everything would one day end was utterly desolating.

Keep your life so constantly in touch with God that His surprising power can break through at any point.

I only live the full life when I live fully in the moment.