Top 100 God Is Present Quotes
#1. God is unlimited and infinite with respect to time; He is eternal. God is unlimited and unaffected by space; He is present everywhere at the same time.
David Jeremiah
#2. The only possible relationship with God is to address him and to be addressed by him, here and now - or, as Buber puts it, in the present.
Martin Buber
#3. God's call on our lives is often surprising and usually is based on God's ability to see how our various elements in the past might fit together to accomplish God's purposes in the present.
Adam Hamilton
#4. Always, everywhere God is present, and always He seeks to discover Himself to each one
A.W. Tozer
#5. Prayer is the chief thing that man may present unto God.
Georg Hermes
#6. You should know that there is present with you the angel whom God has appointed for each man ... This angel, who is sleepless and cannot be deceived, is always present with you; he sees all things and is not hindered by darkness. You should know, too, that with him is God.
Anthony The Great
#7. Wayne Grudem, my friend and seminary professor, put it well: "God does not have size or spatial dimensions and is present at every point of space with His whole being, yet God acts differently in different places."19
James MacDonald
#8. To escape the distress caused by regret for the past or fear about the future, this is the rule to follow: leave the past to the infinite mercy of God, the future to His good Providence, give the present wholly to His love by being faithful to His grace.
Jean-Pierre De Caussade
#9. The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.
St. Jerome
#10. 24To him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy - 25to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen.
Anonymous
#11. Every being is a spark of the Divine, or God. Look into the eyes of the dog and sense that innermost core. When you are present, you can sense the spirit, the one consciousness, in every creature and love it as yourself.
Eckhart Tolle
#12. If we stand in the openings of the present moment, with all the length and breadth of our faculties unselfishly adjusted to what it reveals, we are in the best condition to receive what God is always ready to communicate.
Thomas Cogswell Upham
#13. Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things
Ann Voskamp
#14. God is not a matter of mood. He is still present even when we are not in the mood to meet with him.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#15. If there is any danger in the present weather, in the name of God, Monsieur, wait until spring
Vincent De Paul
#16. It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.
C.S. Lewis
#17. What I am trying to say is that Jesus who incarnated God 2,000 years ago is mystically present and waiting to be discovered in EVERY person you and I encounter
Tony Campolo
#18. The kernel is the belief that God is love and, in Catholicism, God's love is present in the world. It is in the sacraments, in the Eucharist, in our families, in our friends, in our neighborhood, and forgiveness in the touch of a friendly hand, in a rediscovered love God is there.
Andrew Greeley
#19. One of the ways that our faith expresses itself is by our ability to be still, to be present, and not to panic or lose perspective. God still does his best work in the most difficult of circumstances.
Tim Hansel
#20. The idea that the Lord had given us a present, that the world is a gift from God ... well, the amount of stuff, back then, that the Lord was giving away was limited. We do not have dominion.
David Attenborough
#21. Communicating with God is the most extraordinary experience imaginable, yet at the same time it's the most natural one of all, because God is present in us at all times. Omniscient, omnipotent, personal-and loving us without conditions. We are connected as One through our divine link with God.
Eben Alexander
#22. It is He who manifests as both matter and consciousness. There is no place where God is not. In every atom, in every living being He alone is present.
Rama Swami
#25. The present system of taking oaths is horrible. It is awfully absurd to make a man invoke God's wrath upon himself, if he speaks false; it is, in my judgment, a sin to do so.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#26. Thank God that He has permitted us to live among the present problems. It is no longer permitted to anyone to be mediocre.
Dorothy Day
#27. It is distrust of God to be troubled about what is to come; impatience against God to be troubled with what is present; and anger at God to be troubled for what is past.
Simon Patrick
#28. Oh, if only the suffering soul knew how it is loved by God, it would die of joy and excess of happiness! Some day, we will know the value of suffering, but then we will no longer be able to suffer. The present moment is ours.
Mary Faustina Kowalska
#29. God isn't present in the past or future. The great 'I Am' is in the present moment. When I claim that presence, I can get through anything today.
Regina Brett
#30. The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#31. For Christian faith, the death of God is not a question of his disappearance. On the contrary, it is one of the places where He is most fully present. Jesus is not Man standing in for God. He is a sign that God is incarnate in human frailty and futility.
James Carroll
#32. God is wholly present in all creation, in every corner, behind you and before you. Do you think God is sleeping on a pillow in heaven? God is watching over you and protecting you.
Martin Luther
#33. When the inner garden is under cultivation and God's Spirit is present, harvests are regular events. The fruits? Things like courage, hope, love, endurance, joy, and lots of peace.
Gordon MacDonald
#34. I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me, I am unspeakably blissful, when it is absent, I long for it more vehemently than does the lover for his object.
Soren Kierkegaard
#35. I am deeply convinced that God is present both in the lives of every person and also in the lives of entire nations.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#36. A Christian who withdraws into himself, hiding all that the Lord has given him, is not a Christian! I would ask the many young people present to be generous with their God-given talents for the good of others, the Church and our world.
Pope Francis
#37. Praise is pushing back my daily worries and impending tasks to acknowledge my always present, never changing God.
Kathi Lambrides Westlund
#38. One of the greatest foes of the Christian is religious complacency.. Orthodox Christianity has fallen to its present low estate from lack of spiritual desire. Among the many who profess the Christian faith, scarcely one in a thousand reveals any passionate thirst for God.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#40. The love of God is constantly active and present. His love didn't just happen once. It's forever moving in you and in your life.
Stormie O'martian
#41. The power of God is present at all places, even in the tiniest tree leaf.
Martin Luther
#42. Dear Lord,I am so thankful that You are always present. I never need to make an appointment to speak to You, the God of the universe. No matter where I go or what time it is, I can depend on Your presence.
Dave Branon
#43. There is not a moment in which God does not present Himself under the cover of some pain to be endured, of some consolation to be enjoyed, or of some duty to be performed. All that takes place within us, around us, or through us, contains and conceals His divine action.
Jean-Pierre De Caussade
#44. We are glad the Dauphin is so pleasant with us;
His present and your pains we thank you for:
When we have match'd our rackets to these balls,
We will, in France, by God's grace, play a set
Shall strike his father's crown into the hazard.
King Henry, scene ii
William Shakespeare
#45. But again He is equally present in sudden unexpected moments, and it is the neglect of these moments that is the most fruitful source of disbelief in Him.
Charles Williams
#46. God is using your present circumstances to make you more useful for later roles in His unfolding story.
Louie Giglio
#47. Invited or not, God is present.
Carl Jung
#48. When preachers teach biblically and clearly about the judgment of God and the dangers of hell, men begin to see that their greatest need is to be saved from eternal condemnation, and the more "practical" needs of this present age become trivial in comparison.
Paul Washer
#49. A wise man has said: 'Only a Christian can live wholly in the present, for to him the past is pardoned and the future is safe in God.' ... the Christian life must be a life without regrets, without remorse.
Evelyn Underhill
#50. The art of life is to live in the present moment and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God himself.
Emmet Fox
#51. The theist must present an intelligible description of god. Until he does so, god makes no more sense than unie; both are cognitively empty, and any attempt at proof is logically absurd.
George H. Smith
#52. Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill it.
Richard Dawkins
#53. As the gospels present it to us, the mission of Jesus of Nazareth is about the way in which the community of God's people - historically, the Jewish people who had first received the law and the covenant - is being re-created in relation to Jesus himself.
Rowan Williams
#54. Life is a dash.
Pause in the present.
Enjoy this moment.
J.R. Rim
#55. God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.
Plotinus
#56. if the sublimest Truths of faith are still, for us, wrapped in impenetrable obscurity, the reason for this is because we have up to the present dissolved the connection between God, nature, and man.
Karl Von Eckartshausen
#57. No candidate at present is thinking of justice for the Black and the Red and the Brown in this manner. And none of them are showing they will accept to let us go to save America from the Wrath of God. So Black and White have to know America now is in the crosshairs of God Himself, the Great Mahdi.
Louis Farrakhan
#58. God's forgiveness is not just a casual statement; it is the complete blotting out of all dirt and degradation of our past, present, and future.
Billy Graham
#59. Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
Samuel Butler
#60. The great monotheistic faiths declare, in full view of the apparently contrary evidence, that the present world of space, time, and matter always was and still is the good creation of a good God.
N. T. Wright
#61. I have seen faith rise 'mountain high' when the truth of God's present love and compassion begins to dawn upon the minds and hearts of the people. It is not what God can do, but what we know He yearns to do, that inspires faith.
F. F. Bosworth
#62. 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
#63. With God's help, good cheer permits us to rise above the depressing present or difficult circumstances. ... It is sunshine when clouds block the light. Ensign, May 1986
Marvin J. Ashton
#64. Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
#65. God is everywhere present by His power. He rolls the orbs of heaven with His hand; He fixes the earth with His foot; He guides all creatures with His eye, and refreshes them with His influence; He makes the powers of hell to shake with His terrors, and binds the devils with His word.
Jeremy Taylor
#66. Everything God does - past, present, or future, whether in grace or in judgment - is to reveal His glory.
Jim George
#67. Could anyone fully understand the wonders of how a baby develops in the womb of a woman? This is the mystery about birth. Birth is by divine power of God.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#68. God gives you His spiritual ideas, and in turn, they give you daily supplies. Never ask for tomorrow: it is enough that divine Love is an ever-present help; and if you wait, never doubting, you will have all you need every moment.
Mary Baker Eddy
#69. In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party.
Abraham Lincoln
#70. Who you are in Christ is far more important and meaningful than what has taken place in your past.
Elizabeth George
#71. I believe that God is carrying us whether we know it or not and is always present. I love what C.S. Lewis said - "You don't have a soul, you are a soul. You have a body."
Randall Wallace
#73. I believe that people are holy because they're made in the image of God, and a place can be holy when God is present - but no place is so holy that it's worth shedding the blood of those who bear the image of God.
Jared Brock
#74. When the POWER OF GOD is present, healing and deliverance are just like BREATHING!
T. B. Joshua
#75. Forgiveness is essential to your well being, but the person you forgive doesn't need to be present in your life because the act really, is between only you and God.
Toni Sorenson
#76. God designs that those whom He sanctifies ... shall tarry awhile in this present evil world, that their own experience of temptations may teach them how great the deliverance is, which God has wrought for them.
David Brainerd
#77. Jesus did not define the kingdom as being in the hearts of the Pharisees or anyone else. The kingdom is an objective reality when the King is present.
Dr. J. Otis Yoder
#78. I firmly believe God continues to answer the prayers of His people even after He has taken them to heaven. Never forget that God isn't bound by time the way we are. We see only the present moment; God sees everything. We see only part of what He is doing; He sees it all.
Billy Graham
#79. God defines himself as "I am who I am", which also means: My being is such that I shall always be present in every moment of becoming.
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
#80. God is omnipotent, He is omniscient, and He is ever present.
Little Richard
#81. Oh! it is sweet to be thus weaned from friends, and from myself, and dead to the present world, that so I may live wholly to and upon the blessed God!
David Brainerd
#82. God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present; indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent - it extends through all space, with all other matter.
Orson Pratt
#83. I just want the world to know that God is present, that he's alive for ever more.
Little Richard
#84. God inhabits the praises of His people. And when the King is present, all things are possible. So
Mike Harland
#85. For me the only way I can thank God for his ever-present creation is to offer him a new music impressed of a beauty which nobody had previously understood ... the music we play is one long prayer, a message coming from God
Albert Ayler
#86. The greatest judgment which God himself can, in the present life, inflict upon a man is to leave him in the hand of his own boasted 'free'-will.
Augustus Toplady
#87. God is our refuge and our strength, an ever-present help in trouble.
Anonymous
#88. God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.
Marianne Williamson
#89. I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor eprincipalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Anonymous
#90. God's kingship is present in the church, but it must be insisted that it is not the property of the church. It
Lesslie Newbigin
#91. It is not possible that you could ever find yourself anywhere where God was not fully present, fully active, able and willing to set you free.
Emmet Fox
#92. God dwells in His creation and is everywhere indivisibly present in all His works. He is transcendent above all His works even while He is immanent within them.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#93. From the highest god to the meanest grass, the same power is present in all - whether manifested or not. We shall have to call forth that power by going from door to door.
Swami Vivekananda
#94. God is not pre or post anything. He is present to everything ... There is not predestination but destination, not predestiny but destiny. This follows from divine omniscience and eternity.
Peter Kreeft
#95. Today is the day to cast your worries on God and breathe in new life. Your past does not define who you are today.
Gabriella Marigold Lindsay
#96. The mode in which that glory is to be seen in the present is praise. "I will sing praise to my God while I have being." The glory of God, said the theologian Irenaeus, is a human being fully alive.
N. T. Wright
#97. Do you believe that God is near? He wants you to. He wants you to know that He is in the midst of your world. Wherever you are as you read these words, He is present.
Max Lucado
#98. He is never born, never dies, without beginning or end, eternal and infinite. Through all times, past, present and future, He remains the same. The origin and dissolution of the Universe is all within him. Nothing exists without his existence. He is everything.
Rama Swami
#99. I want to be the first to bless you on what God has blessed you with - fighting in the heart of the Muslim world that was a battleground for large historic Islamic wars and what is now the place of Islam's greatest war in the present era.
Bill Vaughan
#100. Though we cannot experience our life as an endless present, we are eternal in God's eyes; that is, in our deepest reality.
C.S. Lewis
