Quotes about Presence
That is God's call to us - simply to be people who are content to live close to him and to renew the kind of life in which the closeness is felt and experienced.
— Thomas Merton
Showing up is not all of life - but it counts for a lot.
— Hillary Clinton
Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.
— Ann Voskamp
The busyness of your life leaves little room for the source of your life.
— Ann Voskamp
Like dropping through a hole in everything that the world said was important….Like discovering that nothing else mattered and all I needed was now….Temporarily removed from the game….Like floating weightless on the Dead Sea and looking up at an empty sky.
— Arianna Huffington
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
— Henry David Thoreau
Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!
— Joyce Meyer
Listen to your life. All moments are key moments.
— Frederick Buechner
Whether you call on him or don't call on him, God will be present with you.
— Frederick Buechner
Listen. Your life is happening. You are happening. Think back on your journey. The music of your life...
— Frederick Buechner
Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.
— Frederick Buechner
It hardly matters how the body of Jesus came to be missing because in the last analysis what convinced the people that he had risen from the dead was not the absence of his corpse but his living presence. And so it has been ever since.
— Frederick Buechner