Quotes about Presence

The essence of love is not what we think or do or provide for others, but how much we give of ourselves. Men, in particular, often don't understand this. Many have said to me, "I don't understand my wife and kids. I provide everything they need. What more could they want?" They want you! Your eyes, your ears, your time, your attention, your presence, your focus

Busyness is a great enemy of relationships.

Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time.

God is with us, and His power is around us.

And now we beseech of Thee that we may have every day some such sense of God's mercy and of the power of God about us, as we have of the fullness of the light of heaven before us.

How strange too and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one's presence had once had the power to make a difference between happiness and dullness in another's day.

Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.

Prayer is where the action is.

Prayer is not a painful effort to gain from God help in the varying needs of life. Prayer is the desire to possess God Himself

You need not cry very loud; he is nearer to us than we think.

Prayer is not what is done by us, but rather what is done by the Holy Spirit in us.

The primary purpose of prayer is not to get something, but to know Someone.