Presence Of God Quotes - Page 3

• How we live is determined by what is ultimately fueling us - our deepest desire or end goal. Do we really want to know and follow God, or are we more interested in a comfortable, pleasurable life for ourselves? Jesus asked his disciples early on, "What do you seek?" And he's still asking that question today. To be motivated to live in the presence of God, we have to believe that "the good life" is really found in him and him alone.

  Kenneth Boa

  Jesus, Good Life, Believe

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Look at the animals roaming the forest: God’s spirit dwells within them. Look at the birds flying across the sky: God’s spirit dwells within them. Look at the tiny insects crawling in the grass: God’s spirit dwells within them. Look at the fish in the river and sea….There is no creature on earth in whom God is absent… his breath had brought every creature to life… God’s spirit is present within plant as well. The presence of God’s spirit in all living things is what makes them beautiful; and if we look with God’s eyes, nothing on earth is ugly.

  Pelagius

  Beautiful, Eye, Animal

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• The mark of the true church is an expanding witness to the presence of God.

  Gregory Beale

  Church, Worship, Expanding

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• Joy is a sure sign of the presence of God in your life.

  Elizabeth George

  Joy

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• But a man with an experience is never at the mercy of a man with only an argument. ... If we can lead people into the manifest presence of God, all false theological houses of cards will tumble down.

  Tommy Tenney

  Men, House Of Cards, People

  Tommy Tenney (2005). “God Chasers”, p.20, Destiny Image Publishers

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• Prayer is such an ordinary, everyday, mundane thing. Certainly, people who pray are no more saints than the rest of us. Rather, they are people who want to share a life with God, to love and be loved, to speak and to listen, to work and to be at rest in the presence of God.

  Roberta Bondi

  Prayer, People, Everyday

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• Do everything in earnest--if it is worth doing, then do it with all your might. Above all, keep much in the presence of God. Never see the face of man till you have seen his face who is our Life, our All.

  Robert E. Murray

  Men, Might, Faces

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• The mystery of the spiritual life is that Jesus desires to meet us in the seclusion of our own heart, to make his love known to us there, to free us from our fears, and to make our own deepest self known to us Each time you let the love of God penetrate deeper into your heart it leads to a love of ourselves that enables us to give whole-hearted love to our fellow human beings. In the seclusion of our hearts we learn to know the hidden presence of God; and with that spiritual knowledge we can lead a loving life.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Jesus, Heart

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• Best of all, Christmas means a spirit of love, a time when the love of God
  and the love of our fellow men
  should prevail over all hatred and bitterness,
  a time when our thoughts
  and deeds and the spirit of our lives manifest the presence of God.

  George McDougall

  Christmas, Mean, Healing

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• The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Moments, Existence, True Meaning

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• Words engage our minds, but in the silence we hear the Presence of God.

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  Ram Dass

  Silence, Meditation, Mind

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• We need prayer to understand God's love for us. If we really mean to pray and want to pray we must be ready to do it now. These are only the first steps towards prayer but if we never make the first step with determination, we will not reach the last one: the presence of God

  Mother Teresa

  Determination, Prayer, Mean

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• You don't know how to pray? Put yourself in the presence of God, and as soon as you have said, 'Lord, I don't know how to pray!' you can be sure you have already begun.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Saint, Praying, Lord

  "Speech of Vice President Jejomar C. Binay during the 36th National Prayer Breakfast Anniversary". Jojo Binay @JojoCBinay, www.facebook.com. November 24, 2011.

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• The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.

  John Vianney

  Angel, Firsts, Consciousness

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• The spiritual traditions of all the religions have certain similarities that are unmistakable. They share many of the same basic practices like sacred reading, spiritual guidance, moderation in eating, drinking and sexual expression, and above all, trying to be aware of the presence of God in other people and in everyday life.

  Thomas Keating

  Spiritual, Reading, Drinking

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Prayer is an impossibility without a living faith in the presence of God within.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Prayer, Impossibility

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.92, Rajpal & Sons

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• Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn to fling the door wide back and let God in, you will work on a wrong level all day; but swing the door wide open and pray to your Father in secret, and every public thing will be stamped with the presence of God.

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Faith, Letting Go

  Oswald Chambers (1994). “My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers : Features the Author's Daily Prayers”, Discovery House Pub

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• People who have known the joy of God point each other to flashes of light here and there, and remind each other that they reveal the hidden but real Presence of God. They discover that there are people who heal each other's wounds, forgive each other's offenses, share their possessions, foster the spirit of community, celebrate the gifts they have received, and live in constant anticipation of the full manifestation of God's Glory.

  Henri Nouwen

  Real, Light, People

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• I am a very religious person, so it is the presence of God, the constant unwavering, unrelenting presence of God which continues to help me to keep a character which I am proud to show.

  Maya Angelou

  Religious, Character, Proud

  "America's Renaissance Woman". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

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• 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.

  John Piper

  Son, Wrath, God Love

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• The whole world has risen in Christ... If God is 'all in all,' then everything is in fact paradise, because it is filled with the glory and presence of God, and nothing is any more separated from God.

  Thomas Merton

  World, Paradise, Facts

  Thomas Merton (2011). “The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters”, p.822, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• God is real. God is here now. God is this moment revealed. For the most part, we are lost in the past and future world of the mind. To experience the living Presence of God in all things present, we will have come to where God is. We will have to become fully present. Otherwise we have no choice but to believe in God or disbelieve in God and neither is true, for the truth is beyond belief!

  Leonard Jacobson

  Real, Believe, Past

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• How hard is it for God to get your attention? Do you regularly practice turning aside in your day? That is, taking a moment to listen to God- because God, through the Holy Spirit, really is speaking, because we know, every place is filled with the presence of God. There is not an inch of space, not a moment of time, that God does not inhabit.

  John Ortberg

  Practice, Space, Doe

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• I drove away from my mind everything capable of spoiling the sense of the presence of God.... I just make it my business to persevere in His holy presence... My soul has had an habitual, silent, secret conversation with God.

  Brother Lawrence

  Prayer, Soul, Secret

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• The danger is that we may fail to perceive life's greatest meaning, fall short of its highest good, miss its deepest and most abiding happiness, be unable to render the most needed service, be unconscious of life ablaze with the light of the Presence of God - and be content to have it so - that is the danger. That some day we may wake up and find that always we have been busy with the husks and trappings of life - and have really missed life itself.

  Phillips Brooks

  Fall, Light, Missing

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