Quotes about God's presence

To be unknown to God is entirely too much privacy.

We do not know we are full of paradise because we are so full of our own noise that we cannot hear God singing us and all things into being.

Not all works are alike. For Scripture says that Abraham was hospitable and God was with him. Elias loved solitary prayer, and God was with him. And David was humble, and God was with him. Therefore, whatever you see your soul to desire according to God, do that thing, and you shall keep your heart safe.

God bridges the infinite distances between Himself and the spirits created to love Him, by supernatural missions of His own life. The Father, dwelling in the depths of all things and in my own depths, communicates to me His Word and His Spirit. Receiving them I am drawn into His own life and know God in His own Love, being one with Him in His own Son.

Because God's love is in me, it can come to you from a different and special direction that would be closed if He did not live in me, and because His love is in you, it can come to me from a quarter from which it would not otherwise come. And because it is in both of us, God has greater glory.

We can't even begin to know God through our emotions or our physical senses. We should be emotional about the things of God.

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.

When God works in our lives, those without faith like to call it chance. Those who believe call it a miracle. I don't know where you land on that scale, but I'm suggesting God is not as distant as you may believe.

Half of all regular church-going adults admit that they have not experienced God's presence at any time during the past year. The younger the adult, the more likely they are to state that God is a distant, impersonal reality for them. And even among those who say God's presence was evident to them, most of them say that happened only one or two times throughout the course of the year.

The spirituality of wonder knows the world is charged with grace, that while sin and war, disease and death are terribly real, God's loving presence and power in our midst are even more real.

Apart from you, I have no good thing,' and that God fills him with joy in His presence. It helps me remember that I'm not alone.

the thing about light is that it doesn't come from us. It's God in us that provides the light to the world. So if you want to be light to her, you'd better make sure that light is shining in you first.