God's Presence Quotes

• Men invent means and methods of coming at God''s love, they learn rules and set up devices to remind them of that love, and it seems like a world of trouble to bring oneself into the consciousness of God''s presence. Yet it might be so simple. Is it not quicker and easier just to do our common business wholly for the love of him?

  Brother Lawrence

  Mean, Simple, Men

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• Nothing bothers the devil more than a Christian delighting in God’s presence.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Devil, Bother

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• Having the reality of God's presence is not dependent on our being in a particular circumstance or place, but is only dependent on our determination to keep the Lord before us continually.

  Oswald Chambers

  Determination, Reality, Lord

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.422, Discovery House

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• The one thing you absolutely need is the one thing you can never lose: God's presence and love for you. Just have to talk to him.

  Keke Palmer

  And Love, Needs, One Thing

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• God, Who is everywhere, never leaves us. Yet He seems sometimes to be present, sometimes to be absent. If we do not know Him well, we do not realize that He may be more present to us when He is absent than when He is present.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, May, Sometimes

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.250, Shambhala Publications

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• Each day presents a new opportunity to experience God's presence.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Opportunity, Each Day, New Opportunity

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• If you have God's presence, you have favor. One minute of God's presence can accomplish more than 20 years of your striving.

  Heidi Baker

  Years, Favors, Strive

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• We don't need answers and explanations as much as we need God's presence in and through the suffering.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Suffering, Needs, Answers

  Source: www.lifeisstory.com

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• I don't know a single person who truly seems to bear the mark of God's presence and power in his or her life who hasn't been asked by God to be obedient in a way that was dramatically painful.

  Beth Moore

  Way, Bears, Painful

  Beth Moore (2015). “Believing God”, p.197, B&H Publishing Group

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• More is accomplished by spending time in God's presence than by doing anything else.

  Heidi Baker

  Spending Time, Spending, Accomplished

  Heidi Baker (2014). “Birthing the Miraculous: The Power of Personal Encounters with God to Change Your Life and the World”, p.20, Charisma Media

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• You'll never know Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have. Are you in the wilderness? Find refuge in God's presence. Find comfort in his people.

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, People, Comfort

  Max Lucado (2006). “Facing Your Giants: A David and Goliath Story for Everyday People”, p.40, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• God's presence is all that matters.

  Francis Chan

  Matter, God's Presence

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• Trying to be happy without a sense of God’s presence is like trying to have a bright day without the sun.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Trying, Sun, Bright Days

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• The importance of coming into God's presence is worth overcoming all obstacles along the way.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Overcoming, Way, Obstacles

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• Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God's presence.

  Joyce Meyer

  Sometimes, Enjoy, Stills

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• Visitation of God's presence is a byproduct of worship. However, we don't worship in order to gain His presence. He is worthy to be worshipped whether or not He chooses to show up.

  John Wimber

  Order, Gains, Worship

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• Christ is the door that opens into God's presence and lets the soul into His very bosom, faith is the key that unlocks the door; but the Spirit is He that makes this key.

  William Gurnall

  Keys, Doors, Soul

  William Gurnall (1979). “The Christian in Complete Armour: A Treatise of the Saints' War Against the Devil: Wherein a Discovery is Made of that Grand Enemy of God and His People, in His Policies, Power, Seat of His Empire, Wickedness, and Chief Design He Hath Against the Saints : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Helped on with His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapon: Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War”, Banner of Truth

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• Play is an expression of God's presence in the world; one clear sign of God's absence in society is the absence of playfulness and laughter.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Laughter, Expression, Play

  Michael Yaconelli, Mike Yaconelli (2000). “Dangerous Wonder: The Adventure of Childlike Faith”

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• Only God's presence can change people's lives.

  Priscilla Shirer

  People, God's Presence

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• You know people just assume, 'Well, all my life I'll be a worrier.' That doesn't have to be true. There's a way to drink from God's presence so much that worry begins to dissipate.

  Max Lucado

  People, Worry, Way

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• That we should establish ourselves in a sense of GOD’s Presence, by continually conversing with Him. That it was a shameful thing to quit His conversation, to think of trifles and fooleries.

  Brother Lawrence

  Thinking, Quitting, Should

  Brother Lawrence (2013). “The Practice of the Presence of God and Spiritual Maxims”, p.6, Lulu Press, Inc

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• He finally understood that God's presence was everywhere, at all times, and was experienced by everyone at one time or another.

  Nicholas Sparks

  All Time, Understood, One Time

  Nicholas Sparks (2014). “The Last Song: Student edition”, p.456, Hachette UK

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• If you have never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it - I mean really asked, expecting an answer.

  Frederick Buechner

  Mean, Answers, Expecting

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• The disciplines of prayer, silence, and contemplation as practiced by the monastics and mystics are precisely that - stopping the noise, slowing down, and becoming still so that God can break through all our activity and noise to speak to us. Prayer serves to put all parts of our lives in God's presence, reminding us how holy our humanity really is.

  Jim Wallis

  Prayer, Break Through, Discipline

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• There are only two ways that God’s justice can be satisfied with respect to your sin. Either you satisfy it or Christ satisfies it. You can satisfy it by being banished from God’s presence forever. Or you can accept the satisfaction that Jesus Christ has made.

  R. C. Sproul

  Jesus, Two, Justice

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