Quotes about Presence
When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.
— Henry David Thoreau
It's a paradise that we are going to go into, because to be in the presence of God itself will be a paradise.
— Billy Graham
I believe that God is with you, that there is a presence. I believe this God is for you. I don't think the universe is a cold, dead place that is indifferent.
— Rob Bell
Are you satisfied being filled with good information about God, or do you long to burst into His manifest presence?
— AW Tozer
God dwells in His creation and is everywhere indivisibly present in all His works. He is transcendent above all His works even while He is immanent within them.
— AW Tozer
If in our Saturday pursuits we're far from God's presence, we're not in very good shape to worship Him on Sunday.
— AW Tozer
Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things
— Ann Voskamp
When we pray, it's the Holy Spirit Who makes the divine presence real to our spirits, and then we seem to 'feel close' to a living God. We are spiritually overwhelmed by divine glory.
— Chris Oyakhilome
The very fact that we have access to God's attention and presence should concentrate the thoughts and elevate the heart.
— Timothy Keller
God is not pre or post anything. He is present to everything. ... There is not predestination but destination, not predestiny but destiny. This follows from divine omniscience and eternity.
— Peter Kreeft
Prayer is - keeping company with God.
— Philip Yancey