Quotes about Presence
Look at Him while He is looking at you.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
Abiding fully means praying much.
— Andrew Murray
Prayer is more than words. It's listening, seeing and feeling.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Leadership requires vision, and whence will vision come except from hours spent in the presence of God in humble and fervent prayer?
— AW Tozer
Use "breath prayers" throughout the day, as many Christians have done for centuries. You choose a brief sentence or a simple phrase that can be repeated to Jesus in one breath: "You are with me."
— Rick Warren
Prayer is happening, and it is not necessarily something that I am doing. God is happening, and I am lucky enough to know that I am in The Midst.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Prayer is not an exercise it is the life.
— Oswald Chambers
Jesus is never bored in his relationship with you.
— Mike Bickle
Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness.
— Thomas Merton
Thou liest in Abraham's bosom all the year;And worship'st at the Temple's inner shrine,God being with thee when we know it not.
— William Wordsworth
The Man of Science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; he cherishes and love it in his solitude: the Poet, singing a song in which all human beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion.
— William Wordsworth
No other than the very heart of man, As found among the best of those who live-- Not unexalted by religious faith, Nor uninformed by books, good books, though few-- In Nature's presence: thence may I select Sorrow, that is not sorrow, but delight; And miserable love, that is not pain To hear of, for the glory that redounds Therefrom to human kind, and what we are.
— William Wordsworth