Quotes about God's presence

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.

The human heart by nature seeks after God. There is a spiritual vacuum in every man until it is filled by Christ.

Before there was a proper understanding and a sense of God's presence, the idea that everything would one day end was utterly desolating.

In other words to live Eternal Life in the full and final sense is to be with God as Christ is with him, and with each other as Christ is with us.

While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life.

On the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted.

Our forebears back in the camp meeting days used to say that if people left a meeting talking about what a wonderful sermon the preacher gave or how beautifully the singers sang, the meeting had failed. But if people went home saying things like "Isn't God good? He met me tonight in such a wonderful way," it was a good meeting. There was to be no sharing the stage with the Lord.

In fact, Carol and I have told each other more than once that if the spirit of brokenness and calling on God ever slacks off in the Brooklyn Tabernacle, we'll know we're in trouble, even if we have 10,000 in attendance.