Quotes about Presence

When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive.

Jesus won't try to speak over the noise in our lives; love whispers so we won't be confused about who's doing the talking.

I wished God were like He used to be, a few notches lower. I wanted Him to be lofty enough to help me but not so uncontrollable. I longed for His warm presence, times when He seemed more… safe.

Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.

Prayers are tools not for doing or getting, but for being and becoming.

The assumption of spirituality is that always God is doing something before I know it. So the task is not to get God to do something I think needs to be done, but to become aware of what God is doing so that I can respond to it and participate and take delight in it.

The core message of the gospel is that God invades us with new life, but the setting for this is most often in the ordinariness of our lives. The new life takes place in the place and person of our present. It is not a means by which God solves problems. God creates new life. He is not a problem solver but a person creator.

We need alert listeners to give dignity to those stretches in our lives when we are not aware of participating in anything we think might be embraced by the kingdom of God.

The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't be complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us.

Everyone wants to be happy, to be blessed. Too many people are willfully refusing to pay attention to the One who wills our happiness and ignorantly supposing that the Christian way is a harder way to get what they want than doing it on their own. They are wrong. God's ways and God's presence are where we experience the happiness that lasts.

What do you think God meant when he said, "Remove your sandals from your feet. You're standing on holy ground"?

Prayer is a way of language practiced in the presence of God in which we become more than ourselves while remaining ourselves.