Quotes about Presence
If you look up into His face and say, "Yes, Lord, whatever it costs," at that moment He'll flood your Life with His presence and power.
— Alan Redpath
Contemplation is the loving sense of this life, this presence and this eternity.
— Thomas Merton
The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now.
— Henri Nouwen
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
— Teresa of Avila
The meaning of life is found in openness to being and "being present" in full awareness.
— Thomas Merton
You're here, you're breathing, you are the recipient of an extraordinary act of generosity called life.
— Rob Bell
The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
— Dallas Willard
Life is what happens when we are busy doing other things. Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are and something you give away.
— John Lennon
Our forebears back in the camp meeting days used to say that if people left a meeting talking about what a wonderful sermon the preacher gave or how beautifully the singers sang, the meeting had failed. But if people went home saying things like "Isn't God good? He met me tonight in such a wonderful way," it was a good meeting. There was to be no sharing the stage with the Lord.
— Jim Cymbala
It's been said that peace is not the absence of danger but the presence of God.
— Anne Graham Lotz
If you worry about what might be, and wonder what might have been, you will ignore what is.
— Anonymous
The grass is full of ghost to-night.' 'The whole campus is alive with them.
— F Scott Fitzgerald