Quotes about Presence

Don't talk about it. The rose doesn't have to propagate its perfume. It just gives it forth, and people are drawn to it. Live it, and people will come to see the source of your power.

I promise you that one day you will stand aside and look at your difficult times, you will realize that he was always there beside you.

Love is God's shadow as He strolls through the universe.

I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene….No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus.

No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life... no man can deny the fact that Jesus existed, nor that his sayings are beautiful.

Unmentioned, what is can become as though it were not.

Choiceless awareness - at every moment and in all the circumstances of life - is the only effective meditation.

If you are a Christian, two people live in your body - you and the Holy Spirit...And the Holy Spirit is not passive within you.

We must practice the presence of God. He said that when two or three are gathered together, there he is in the midst of them. He is with us in our kitchens, at our tables, on our breadlines, with our visitors, on our farms. When we pray for our material needs, it brings us close to his humanity. He, too, needed food and shelter; he, too, warmed his hands at a fire and lay down in a boat to sleep.

God is never so preoccupied that He is not really listening to you.

God is eavesdropping on us, waiting for us to speak a few words to Him.

God comes to us in the things we know best and cane verify most easily, the things of our everyday life.