Quotes about Presence
What I was seeking, with resolute determination, was to live more intensely my own life, as against what I knew would be the adverse judgment of the world. It was in the most real seasons that the Real Presence came, and I was aware that I was immersed in the infinite ocean of God.
— William James
If you simplify your life, quit chasing the wind, and be quiet before Him, He'll show up.
— Chip Ingram
Developing a life in God's presence above all else is the only way to fulfill our God-given destinies. Keys to our callings are released when we spend time there.
— Heidi Baker
Saint Simeon once said that tears are a sign of the Holy Spirit's presence.
— Heidi Baker
I always knew He was there, but I didn't know His name.
— Helen Keller
But if you find yourself experiencing a desire to seek God, we have great news for you: God is already at work in you.
— Henry Blackaby
Right now, God is working all around you.
— Henry Blackaby
Whether you see Him at work is irrelevant to the fact of God's presence in our world. He is actively and intimately involved in both the affairs of this world and the details of your life.
— Henry Blackaby
We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Where,oh,where are the eternity-conscious believers? Where are the souls white-hot for God because they fear His holy name and presence and so live with eternity's values in view?
— Leonard Ravenhill
If you aren't smelling awful smells sometimes, then you're not where Jesus is.
— Leonard Sweet
Disciples of Jesus do not mimic Jesus; we manifest him. We are personators of Christ, not impersonators. Christ's presence in our lives is more "thereness" than "likeness," more "withness" than "whatness." Jesus made our creation in the imago Dei more "spit" than "image" (as in "spit 'n' image").
— Leonard Sweet