Quotes about Presence

What about your church prayer meeting? Is it tucked away somewhere because there is a busy program in operation and folks have no time to stop and pray? What would happen if your whole Sunday school gathered together for one hour to wait upon God, to beseech Him to pour out His blessing on your church? Too frequently our programs make no room for God's presence or for His power to work. Churches have plenty of people ready to interfere, but very few willing to intercede.

Like I said, I like having someone here. At night I look out my bedroom window, and seeing a light on in here comforts me." He paused in the doorway. "Sort of like, 'All is well in the world.' That's what light does, you know. Says all is well in the world.

Heaven is breaking into our world.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invated by worry, fret and anxiety.

I think the reason we sometimes have the false sense that God is so far away is because that is where we have put him. We have kept him at a distance, and then when we are in need and call on him in prayer, we wonder where he is. He is exactly where we left him.

A simplified Christmas isn't about circumstances as much as it is about focus.

We have to keep letting go, and slowly and surely the great full life of God will invade us in every part, and men will take knowledge of us that we have been with Jesus.

An hour spent in the presence of God brings the purest joy known to man.

I walk into a room Just as cool as you please, And to a man, The fellows stand or Fall down on their knees.

It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.