Quotes about Presence
God lives in the place of praise. If we want to be where He is, we need to go to His address.
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Where true inner freedom is, there is God. And where God is, there we want to be.
— Henri Nouwen
Wherever faith has eyes to see, there is a smiling presence of the Son of God.
— AW Tozer
When the eyes of the soul looking out meet the eyes of God looking in, heaven has begun right here on earth.
— AW Tozer
The more I contemplate God, the more God looks on me. The more I pray to him, the more he thinks of me too.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
I have picked up on the terminology of Brother Lawrence, who called praying unceasingly practicing God's presence. In fact, practicing God's presence has been my number one goal for the last year
— Beth Moore
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