Quotes about Presence

We must slow down to a human tempo and we'll begin to have time to listen.

If you believe you are the beloved of God, you need to spend time listening to his voice - period! You can't say, "Yes God calls me the beloved, but I have to go out to do something now."

It doesn't take money to turn off the television and cultivate real bonding time.

Church is a moment in time when the kingdom of God draws near, when a meal, a story, a song, an apology, and even a failure id made holy by the presence of Jesus among us and within us.

Spending time in the presence of Jesus is a non-negotiable. Don't wait until you have time to do it. MAKE time.

There are times when I draw near enough to touch Him, then I know that He has been there all the time.

Remember that you can pray any time, anywhere. Washing dishes, digging ditches, working in the office, in the shop, on the athletic field, even in prison - you can pray and know God hears!

But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.

How a person seems to show up for us is intimately connected to how we choose to show up for them.

A spiritual relationship is not necessarily one in which two people are smiling all the time.  Spiritual means to be above all else, authentic.  Real work can only occur in the presence of rigorous honesty  We all long for that, but we're afraid of communicating honestly with another person because we think they'll leave us if they see who we really are.

Love is everywhere, but if our eyes aren't open to see it, we miss out. Who among us hasn't missed out on love because we were looking for it in one package and it came in another? Our problem is rarely a lack of love so much as a mental block to our awareness of its presence.*

God is in you. GOD. IS. IN. YOU. There is nowhere to go, nothing to fill up, nothing to seek, there is only going inside