Quotes about God's presence

Sin is like a cancer; God's presence is like radiation on that cancer.

My confession then, O my God, in Thy sight, is made silently, and not silently. For in sound, it is silent; in affection, it cries aloud.

He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.

Only when we are captured by an overwhelming sense of awe and reverence in the presence of God, will we begin to worship God in spirit and in truth.

The way to have God near to you is to be humble and broken. As long as we are stubborn and hard and unbending, He will be far from us.

God's signature is not just in the cell, it's in all of creation. God is as necessary to the universe as a band is to music. Once the band stops playing, the music is over.

Getting answers to my questions is not the goal of the spiritual life. Living in the presence of God is the greater call.

Marriage is not that two people love each other so much that they can find God in each other, but that God loves them so much that they can discover each other as living reminders of God's presence.

The core of all prayer is indeed listening, obediently standing in the presence of God.

Every relationship carries within its center a holy vacancy, a space that is for the first Love, God alone.

Coming home and staying there where God dwells, listening to the voice of truth and love, that was, indeed, the journey I most feared because I knew that God was a jealous lover who wanted every part of me all the time. When would I be ready to accept that kind of love?

In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.