Quotes about Presence

What is most important is that you look away from yourself to the true God. No matter who you are or where you are from, you will be able to know him and worship him. And when you worship him, it means you are accepted into his presence.

Faith is not the presence of warm religious feeling. It's the knowledge that you walk before the God who hears.

How does God move toward you?

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body. You can at the same time be here and present to the Lord. Your soul must hold fast to him, you must follow after him in your thoughts, you must tread his ways by faith, not in outward show.

We really focus when we compete, not about the placement so much, just about us having our moment.

I wanted to communicate how important it is to love on the people that are in our lives and to take every day with someone as a blessing.

Through the loss of my wife and many confusing times, Jesus was always there by my side.

In our heart, in the heart of each of you, let there be always the joyous certainty that the Lord is near, that he does not abandon us, that he is near to us, and that he surrounds us with his love.

He also came to realize that he had been so busy attempting to do things for God he had not spent time enjoying fellowship with God.

In solitude, at last, we're able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined—by relationship: the I-thou relationship, in relation to a Presence that demands nothing of us but presence itself. Not performance but presence

God for us, God alongside us, God within us.