Quotes about Presence
We become contemplatives when God discovers Himself in us.
— Thomas Merton
My God, I pray better to you by breathing and walking than by talking, just as in choir I sing best when I am thinking about something else, or better still, praying.
— Thomas Merton
God made a whole beautiful earth and decided to put you in it, to experience all of this beauty. You can't do that watching television all the time.
— Donald Miller
God himself does not give answers. He gives himself.
— Frederick Buechner
God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful.
— Henri Nouwen
When we honestly ask God the 'why' question, He doesn't give us answers as much as He gives us Himself.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
I do believe that the Kingdom of God is present wherever Jesus is king. That's my definition of the Kingdom of God.
— Rick Warren
There is a strain of loneliness infecting many Christians, which only the presence of God can cure.
— AW Tozer
In the presence of God, nothing stands between Him and us - we are forgiven. But we cannot feel His presence if anything is allowed to stand between ourselves and others.
— Dag Hammarskjold
The speech of God is silence. His Word is solitude.
— Thomas Merton
God is coming to intersect us in our funeral processions.
— Louie Giglio
The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence.
— Paulo Coelho