Quotes about God's presence

Love is the essence of God.

Evil is the absence of God. This means that in the space between Man and God, evil exists. And this space is necessary because God had to give us a choice. He had to give us space to choose to love and obey Him.

The events of the past year had drawn him out into lonelier and more dangerous theological territory, but there was a newfound freedom and a faith that bloomed in this situation. He knew that God was with him in a way he couldn't have known before, so his fear of Rome, if ever any had existed, had vanished.

Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words. They should remain open. Our only comfort is the God of the resurrection, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who also was and is his God. In him we know our brothers and in him is the biding fellowship of those who have overcome and those who still await their hour. God be praised for our dead brother and be merciful to us all at our end.

God left so many fingerprints at the scene of Creation that you wonder — does He want to be found, or does He want to be stopped?

Before the heart unlocks itself for the world, God wants to open it for himself; before the ear takes in the countless voices of the day, it should hear in the early hours the voice of the Creator and Redeemer. God prepared the stillness of the first morning for himself. It should remain his.

My feeling has been that once we're actually in God's presence, we will never return to earth again, because it will be empty and meaningless by comparison.

Once the joy of intimacy with God has been experienced, life becomes unbearable without it.

You have to look for the joy. Look for the light of God that is hitting your life, and you will find sparkles you didn't know were there.

There is not a minute of time in all of our life but we must either be near to God or we will be undone.

The consequences of Adam and Eve's sin went far beyond their own banishment from the garden and the presence of God. God had appointed Adam as the federal head or legal representative of the entire human race. Consequently his fall brought guilt and depravity on all his descendants.

God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.