Quotes about Presence

You are what you pay attention to. No attention, no life. Everything comes to life when you pay attention to

The best thing of all is God is with us.

It is true we all have fears attack us," he was saying. "We do not speak of it—but it is there. In those times we realize more than ever that we need God. That is when we pray with the most sincerity. That is when he answers with the most fatherly compassion. His presence is most intimate, most precious, and most reassuring, in those times of fear.

God had promised He would never leave me nor forsake me. That held true on a city street, in a rural teacherage, or in a remote part of the North.

God goes to work with you and does the laundry with you too. There's no place that God is not.

The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.

Let us practice the fine art of making every work a priestly ministration. Let us believe that God is in all our simple deeds and learn to find Him there.

There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hand. I love a broad margin to my life.

Christ made the bread the sacrament of his body only: wherefore as the bread is no similitude of his blood, so am I not bound or ought to affirm, that his blood is there present.

Live each moment, each precious moment that you have. Live each one as if it were your last. And your first. Miss

Mary knew God loved her. From the moment Gabriel appeared to her, Mary has a distinct sense that God's presence was with her and His hand upon her. She didn't understand everything that was happening, but she was certain that God would be with her through it all.

God lives in the place of praise. If we want to be where He is, we need to go to His address.