Quotes about Presence

Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you.

Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside.

We are the guests of Jesus. We are there because he asks us, and because he wants our company. At the same time we are set free to invite Jesus into our lives and literally to receive him into our bodies in the Eucharist.

Memory is the 'self', because it is my presence to myself, the way in which I constitute myself and understand myself as a subject with a continuous history of experience.

If I cannot give my children a perfect mother I can at least give them more of the one they've got--and make that one more loving. I will be available. I will take time to listen, time to play, time to be home when they arrive from school, time to counsel and encouerage.

Throw away your books; no longer distract yourself: it is not allowed.

Just because there's a silence it doesn't mean that nothing is going on.

Is anything wrong, dear? the old joke went. No, why? You moved. Just don't move.

If you were a song What song would you be? Would you be the voice that sings, Would you be the music? When I am singing this song for you You are not empty air You are here, One breath and then another: You are here with me...

If there were no emptiness, there would be no life.

What would that be like - to long, to yearn for someone who is right there before your eyes, day in and day out?

The best way to dwell in the presence of the Lord is to be a thankful person.