Quotes about Presence

Take a breath, look around, a voice seemed to be whispering. None of this is here by accident, and neither are you.

feel that God was so very close, so very concerned with my particular life, so very ready to protect and to love. Always nearby. Always listening. Always leading. But

I would have lived more fully in the moment, realize how easily a perfect day can slip by unnoticed. Any day is the glory day if you choose to see the glory in it

If you could know —if you could always know —when the lasts in life are coming, you'd handle them differently. You'd savor. You'd stop. You'd let nothing else invade the moment.

Every time you mourn for me, I'll be far away. But when you celebrate, I'll be right there with you, dancing.

In the end the women of Christmas quietly stepped aside, making room for the One who truly matters.

You only have to have two loves in your life: for God, and for the person in front of you at any particular time.

He noted that Christ himself, although the Son of God, was always gentle with those who were poor or weak. He went on to say that he tried to follow a simple rule: "You only have to have two loves in your life: for God, and for the person in front of you at any particular time.

You have made known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence.

If we are too busy, if we are carried away every day by our projects, our uncertainty, our craving, how can we have the time to stop and look deeply into the situation-our own situation, the situation of our beloved one, the situation of our family and of our community, and the situation of our nation and of the other nations?

The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Christmas: the Son of God expressing the love of God to save us from the wrath of God so we could enjoy the presence of God.