Quotes about Presence

We say that religion is a matter of mood: we must wait until the mood strikes us. And then we often wait for years —perhaps until the end of our life—until we are once again in the mood to be religious. This idea is based on a great illusion. It is alll well and good to let religion be a matter of mood, but God is not a matter of mood. He is still present even when we are not in the mood to meet with him.

To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord to those who love him and know him.

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.

Your endowment is, to receive all those ordinances in the house of the Lord, which are necessary for you, after you have departed this life, to enable you to walk back to the presence of the Father.

To live coram Deo is to live one's entire life in the presence of God, under the authority of God, to the glory of God.

I only want to write one thing over the doorpost to my heart and life: "Jesus Christ lives here.

I try to live in such a way that nothing gets bigger than my awareness of God presence on my life.

Be truly present in the moment that you are in and don't let life slip by unnoticed.

The God who loans you life sees your every move, hears each word you speak, knows your every thought. You are seen by God. Noticed. Known.

I had my nearest and most intimate glimpses of the presence of my Lord in those dread moments when musket, club or spear was being levelled at my life.

The Christian life is to live all of your life in the presence of God.

There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wherever we are placed.