God's Presence Quotes - Page 3

• It is not the objective proof of God's existence that we want but the experience of God's presence. That is the miracle we are really after, and that is also, I think, the miracle that we really get.

  Frederick Buechner

  Thinking, Miracle, Want

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• Spirituality is natural goodness. God is not a person; God is a presence personified in us. Spirituality is not a thing; it is the atmosphere of God's Presence, goodness, truth, and beauty.

  Ernest Holmes

  Beauty, Truth, Atmosphere

  Ernest Holmes (2012). “The Science of Mind Collection”, p.216, Penguin

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• I can see now how deeply God's absence affected my unconscious life, how under me always there was this long fall that pride and fear and self-love at once protected me from and subjected me to.... For if grace woke me to God's presence in the world and in my heart, it also woke me to his absence. I never truly felt the pain of unbelief until I began to believe.

  Christian Wiman

  Pain, Fall, Believe

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• The kind of prayer I am talking about is a detached kind of prayer in which you are not looking for anything, just putting yourself in God's presence and sharing with him what you are feeling or what you are suffering. It is the kind of prayer in which you just open your heart to God and say, "God, I'm here. I'm not asking for anything, God. I just want to be near you and open my heart to you."

  Joseph Girzone

  Prayer, Heart, Talking

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• All ages are equidistant from eternity, and just as immediately accessible to God's presence.

  Leopold von Ranke

  Age, Eternity, God's Presence

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• Since I was introduced to the practice of God's presence, which in turn led me into the contemplative way, I have nearly always felt so rich, so blessed, so sincerely full of "enough."...I believe it is on this robust, overflowing ...contemplative pathway that one gains the joy and serenity to be generous.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Believe, Blessed, Practice

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• Is it ever possible to overdo the talking about the glory of Christ? Is it ever too often to be in God's presence?

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Talking, Christ, Glory

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• God's presence is not just Light, and Life, but Love. And Love invites, but does not compel.

  Frederica Mathewes-Green

  Light, And Love, Doe

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• Sunday morning, before we go to hear the Word of God preached...let us not rush into God’s presence careless, reckless, and unprepared, as if it mattered not in what way such work was done. Let us carry with us faith, reverence, and prayer. If these three are our companions, we will hear with profit, and return with praise.

  J. C. Ryle

  Morning, Prayer, Sunday

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke”, p.146, Editora Dracaena

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• The realization of God's presence is the one sovereign remedy against temptation.

  Francois Fenelon

  Temptation, Realization, Sovereign

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• The thing is that oftentimes, we want to be everything all at once. We want to be strong and mature, and God wants that for us, too. But just like that flowerpot had to sit in the sun and receive water day after day, we have to sit in God's presence every day, too.

  Victoria Osteen

  Strong, Water, Want

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• Your serenity matters to heaven. God's presence encapsulates your life.

  Max Lucado

  Life, Serenity, Heaven

  Max Lucado (2012). “Come Thirsty: No Heart Too Dry for His Touch”, p.118, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Loving God means rejoicing in God, being eager to think of and pray to God. It means being glad to be in God's presence and to be with God alone. It means not grieving God, but rejoicing in God simply because it is God who is involved, and because we are permitted to know and have God, and to speak with and live with God.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Mean, Thinking, Grieving

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• If in our Saturday pursuits we're far from God's presence, we're not in very good shape to worship Him on Sunday.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Sunday, Shapes, Worship

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• I've never spoken with an angel, though one time I felt the awesome weight and glory of God's presence in an angel in my bedroom as I kneeled in prayer. I kept my eyes closed, good Baptist that I was at the time, so I never knew if it was an angel. (I now am reasonably confident it was.)

  Scot McKnight

  Prayer, Eye, Angel

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• What I affirm is the intuition that where God's presence is no longer a tenable supposition and where His absence is no longer a felt, indeed overwhelming weight, certain dimensions of thought and creativity are no longer attainable. And I would vary Yeats's axiom so as to say: no man can read fully, can answer answeringly to the aesthetic, whose "nerve and blood" are at peace in sceptical rationality, are now at home in immanence and verification. We must read as if.

  George Steiner

  Home, Creativity, Men

  George Steiner (2010). “Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?”, p.264, Faber & Faber

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• What deadens us most to God's presence within us, I think, is the inner dialogue that we are continually engaged in with ourselves, the endless chatter of human thought.

  Frederick Buechner

  Thinking, Endless, Dialogue

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• Where God's presence is no longer a tenable proposition and where his absence is no longer a felt, indeed overwhelming weight, certain dimensions of thought and creativity are no longer attainable.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Creativity, Weight, Dimensions

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• This is the first thing the Holy Spirit does in your life. He brings you God's presence, and when He does, you will no longer be in the dark. The Holy Spirit has a beautiful identity. He is called 'The Angel of God's presence.' He is the One Who brings us the presence of God and makes it real to us.

  Chris Oyakhilome

  Beautiful, Real, Angel

  Chris Oyakhilome PhD. (2014). “Seven Things The Holy Spirit Will Do For You”, p.8, LoveWorld Publishing

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• I have picked up on the terminology of Brother Lawrence, who called praying unceasingly practicing God's presence. In fact, practicing God's presence has been my number one goal for the last year

  Beth Moore

  Brother, Numbers, Years

  Beth Moore (2002). “When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Arming Yourself in the Age of Seduction”, p.109, B&H Publishing Group

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• My whole life had been spent waiting for an epiphany, a manifestation of God's presence, the kind of transcendent, magical experience that lets you see your place in the big picture. And that is what I had with my first [compost] heap.

  Bette Midler

  Waiting, Firsts, Kind

  "Singing the Praises of Composting" by Jodi Wilgoren, articles.latimes.com. May 8, 1996.

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• The search for God's presence was much of a mystery as God himself, and what was God if not a mystery?

  Nicholas Sparks

  Mystery, Ifs, God's Presence

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• It would be like describing colors to someone blind from birth: The words might be understood, but the concept would remain mysterious and private.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Color, Would Be, Might

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• The next time the devil tempts you to think that you are not worthy to approach God, here is what I advise: Agree. Say, “You are right. I am not worthy to approach God. I never was worthy to approach God. I never will be worthy to approach God. My access to God’s presence is not based on my worthiness, it is based on what Christ did for me on the cross.

  Greg Laurie

  Thinking, Devil, Next

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• Before there was a proper understanding and a sense of God's presence, the idea that everything would one day end was utterly desolating.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Ideas

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Mar 10, 2009

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