Quotes about Presence

Nevertheless, every day love corners me somewhere and surrounds me with peace without my having to look very far or very hard or do anything special. God

Mere sitting at home and meditating on the divine presence is not enough for our time. We have to come to the end of a long journey and see that the stranger we meet there is no other than ourselves—which is the same as saying that we find Christ in him. For if the Lord is risen, as He said, He is actually or potentially alive in every man.

As soon as one is conscious of the presence of the Master, one must, in all passivity, abandon the work to Him.

Life is not attained by reasoning and analysis but first of all by living.

The function of a university is to teach a [person] how to drink tea, not because anything is important, but because it is usual to drink tea, or for that matter anything else under the sun. And whatever you do, every act, however small, can teach you everything, provided you see who is acting." ? Thomas Merton, Thomas Merton On Prayer

your eyes must turn, again and again, to the House that hides the Sacramental Christ!

There is only now.

In Silence, God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.

In meditative prayer, one thinks and speaks not only with his mind and lips, but in a certain sense with his whole being.

By faith we know God without seeing Him. By hope we possess God without feeling His presence.

We have found Him, He has found us. We are in Him, He is in us. There is nothing further to look for except for the deepening of this life we already possess. Be content.

We must slow down to a human tempo and we'll begin to have time to listen.