Top 100 Is Present Quotes
#1. That which comes forth, is present and cautions at all times is called 'Gnan' (Eternal knowledge). That indeed is the Soul [Our True Self]. The Soul is not separate from the Knowledge.
Dada Bhagwan
#2. Wherever the Holy Ghost has right of way, the gifts of the Spirit will be in manifestation; and where these gifts are never in manifestation, I question whether He is present.
Smith Wigglesworth
#3. Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present.
Noah Levine
#5. The power of God is present at all places, even in the tiniest tree leaf.
Martin Luther
#6. All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. Well, that's a lie: freedom only exists when love is present. The person who gives him or herself wholly, the person who feels freest, is the person who loves most wholeheartedly.
Paulo Coelho
#7. Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
Robin S. Sharma
#8. When dissonance is present, in addition to trying to reduce it, the person will actively avoid situations and information which would likely increase the dissonance.
Leon Festinger
#9. Opportunity is present is wreckage as much as it is in that which is wonderful. It's not so much how it comes to us, but what we do with it.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#10. One trains the eye of confession most closely on what is hurting. If sin is present it will be aching. Confession begins where the raw anguish of conscience is rubbing against the primordial awareness of God's holiness.
Thomas C. Oden
#11. Invited or not, God is present.
Carl Jung
#12. Most of us are raised to believe we are ordinary. The anchor of the universe is present in every child. A parent only needs to guide and step aside and let them fulfill their dharma. Help children remember that they can do or be anything.
Wayne Dyer
#13. The Self doesn't live forever in time, it lives in the timeless present prior to time, prior to history, change, succession. The Self is present as Pure Presence, not as everlasting duration, a rather horrible notion.
Ken Wilber
#14. Emptiness and the not-"I" is the quality that arises when the therapist consciously moves out of his own way without hindering the therapeutic process through his own ideas, attitudes, expectations and concepts. He is present, available and responds with the truth in the moment.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#15. While the will to love is present in very young children, they still need guidance in the ways of love.
Bell Hooks
#16. I do not mean that others represent Jesus for us. I mean that Jesus actually is present in each other person
Tony Campolo
#17. When I create music, it is a reflection of my soul, my experiences in life and my relationships with other people and cultures. Psychology, and understanding who we are as people in this world, is present in almost every creative thought I have.
Yanni
#18. I assert that, in any particular natural science, one encounters genuine scientific substance only to the extent that mathematics is present.
Immanuel Kant
#19. Everything is present in the world. However, your 'emotional state' does not allow it to come to you. 'Emotional' as in instability. While going to eat, one will worry, 'will I get food or not?' That indeed is instability. If you remain stable, then everything will come to you.
Dada Bhagwan
#20. A version of the golden rule to do unto others as you would have them do unto you is present in every major religion for a reason. Relationships are the place where the mystical experience can become alive.
Helen LaKelly Hunt
#21. The gift of life is present at every moment - even moments that seem insignificant or unpleasant.
Bryant McGill
#22. Whenever domination is present, love is lacking.
Bell Hooks
#24. This means that the mind or spirit is present anywhere, because it is nowhere attached to any particular place. And it can remain present because, even when related to this or that object, it does not cling to it by reflection and thus lose its original mobility.
Eugen Herrigel
#25. Love her who is present, for be sure she who is absent is false to thee;
H. Rider Haggard
#26. If fathers aren't growing up, I would challenge them to want to be a father that is present in the home, so that their kids have that identity.
Benjamin Watson
#27. The soul, in its power, is present in some way in the entire universe, because it apprehends substances which are not included in the body in which it lives, although they are related to it.
Giordano Bruno
#28. If creators of Christian culture hope to produce work that will bear good fruit, we must draw our life from the true source - our living Savior. He is real. He is present. But all too often we reduce him to an abstraction, giving him intellectual assent, but not our hearts.
Michael O'Brien
#29. God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.
Plotinus
#30. As music is present yet you can't touch it.
Mary Oliver
#31. This is the wonderful truth, my dear friends: the Word, which became flesh two thousand years ago, is present today in the Eucharist
Pope John Paul II
#32. All you need do, Bernie,"she gulped her toast soaked in coffee, "is present the truth as fiction.
James Purdy
#33. Just as oil is present in every part of the olive, so love permeates every part of creation.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#34. All religions enjoined worship of the One God who is all-pervasive. He is present even in a drop of water or in a tiny speck of dust.
Mahatma Gandhi
#35. It is a time for quietness and prayer. Death is present with us every day of our lives, it behooves us to take note of its nearness, not as a threat, but as our common experience on the way to grace. There is no more to be said. It is better to accept the will of God, and be silent.
Ellis Peters
#36. Our real Self does not ask questions, as it does not require answers. It is there, it is present Now. We are only able to find it if we forget about questions and submit to the Self, radiating its light in the Present!
Frank M. Wanderer
#37. When the will to learn from the ordinary is present, a seeker may indeed gain entrance into levels of awareness that are extraordinary.
Aberjhani
#38. 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
#39. The faith of the Church is this: That one and identical is the Word of God and the Son of Mary Who suffered on the Cross, Who is present in the Eucharist, and Who rules in Heaven
Pope Pius XII
#40. The night has come and yet the light is still shining. A warmth is present and life is still great. No darkness can put out the light of truth. It remains forever. The heart is still full within the redeemed and love is always strong. Praise Jesus.
Calvin W. Allison
#41. God is present in the moment of choice, not in order to watch but in order to be chosen. Therefore, each person must choose. Terrible is the battle, in a person's innermost being, between God and the world. The crowning risk involved lies in the possession of choice.
Soren Kierkegaard
#42. Thomas Aquinas said of suffering, as Aristotle had said of shame, that it was a thing not good in itself; but a thing which might have a certain goodness in particular circumstances. That is to say, if evil is present, pain at recognition of the evil, being a kind of knowledge, is relatively good.
C.S. Lewis
#43. The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
Henry James
#44. We ought not to READ the scriptures, but listen to them, for our Beloved is present and speaks to us through them. (vs. it being like a love letter sent to us from afar).
M. Basil Pennington
#45. 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
#46. I think that whenever soul is present, it's because what you're doing, whom you're with, where you are, evokes love without your thinking about it. You are totally absorbed in the place of person or event, without ego and without judgment.
Jean Shinoda Bolen
#47. God is present in everything. In the universe in creation, in me and all that happens to me, in my brothers and sisters, in the church - everywhere.
Thea Bowman
#48. When men search for God with their bodily eyes they find Him nowhere, for He is invisible. But for those who ponder in the Spirit He is present everywhere. He is in all, yet beyond all.
Symeon The New Theologian
#49. We cannot be Christians part-time. If Christ is at the center of our lives, he is present in all that we do.
Pope Francis
#50. When anything is present to the mind, what is the very first and simplest character to be noted in it, in every case, no matter how little elevated the object may be? Certainly, it is its presentness .
Charles Sanders Peirce
#51. Christ's own 'God-forsaken-ness' on the cross showed me where God is present where God had been present in those nights of deaths in the fire storms in Hamburg and where God would be present in my future whatever may come.
Jurgen Moltmann
#52. If saving faith is present, it can't help but produce fruit. Good works don't save a person, but they do show that his or her faith is genuine.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#53. Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.
Lara St. John
#54. As yesterday and the historical ages are past, as the work of today is present, so some flitting perspectives and demi-experiences of the life that is in nature are in time veritably future, or rather outside to time, perennial, young, divine, in the wind and rain which never die.
Henry David Thoreau
#55. Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
Denis Diderot
#56. To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#57. Spirituality is not easy to define, but you can tell when it is present. It is the fragrance of the garden of the Lord, the power to change the atmosphere around you, the influence that makes Christ real to others.
J. Oswald Sanders
#58. I don't think that we can figure out what is going on in conscious colour perception just by phenomenological introspection. We need to know about brain mechanisms as well. We need to figure out what information is present in the mechanisms that constitute conscious colour perception.
David Papineau
#59. What stop-motion does best is present real objects magically brought to life in a very imperfect situation; the hand of the artist is there, the electricity of someone touching, massaging and torturing themselves to get life out of an inanimate object.
Henry Selick
#60. This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.
Deepak Chopra
#61. For when one considers the universe, can anyone be so simple-minded as not to believe that the Divine is present in everything, pervading, embracing and penetrating it?
Gregory Of Nyssa
#62. In Sufi terms, there are two very interesting notions of transcendence. One is to gaze out at the universe and to comprehend that what you see out there reflects what you are. The other one is to look inside yourself and recognise that the universe is present there.
Mohsin Hamid
#63. when we do science or are confronted with data the most important question to ask about the results is always whether some bias is present that leads us preferentially to draw one conclusion rather than another from the evidence.
Anonymous
#64. Christ is ever in the world of existence. He has never disappeared out of it ... Rest assured that Christ is present. The Spiritual beauty we see around us today is from the breathings of Christ.
Abdu'l- Baha
#65. Let us flee from the deceit of life and its supposed happiness and run to Christ alone, who is the Savior of souls. Him let us endeavor to find Who is present everywhere, and when we have found Him let us hold Him fast and fall at His feet (cf. Mt. 28:9) and embrace them in the fervor of our souls.
Symeon The New Theologian
#66. 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
#67. When the POWER OF GOD is present, healing and deliverance are just like BREATHING!
T. B. Joshua
#68. It is God which worketh in you. He needs no one, but when faith is present He works through anyone.
A.W. Tozer
#69. It does not take long to die, nor to kill. A life is present or absent, and it is an instant passed between those extremities.
M T Anderson
#70. It's hard to look pleasant when anguish is present, and yet it is strictly worth while; Not all of your scowling and fussing and growling can show off your grit like a smile.
Walter Mason Camp
#71. Success and failure are emotional and physiological experiences. We need to deal with them in a way that is present and calm.
Chade-Meng Tan
#72. The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.
Abraham Lincoln
#73. God inhabits the praises of His people. And when the King is present, all things are possible. So
Mike Harland
#74. Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#75. If I did not love what is present, if I could not cling to this enormous, safe parachute, I would long since have fallen into the abyss.
Christian Morgenstern
#76. The uncontrolled mind Does not guess that the Atman is present: How can it meditate? Without meditation, where is peace? Without peace, where is happiness? (Bhagavad Gita, II. 62, 63, 65)
Swami Vivekananda
#77. The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.
Michael Jackson
#78. Evil is present to cleverly disguise itself as good. Evil is present to control and deceive us.
Billy Graham
#79. Gratitude is present when you see that everything that occurs in your life can be used to show you how to live fully as a human being.
Maria Nemeth
#80. When we're identified with Awareness, we're no longer living in a world of polarities. Everything is present at the same time.
Ram Dass
#81. A manure containing several ingredients acts in this wise: The effect of all of them in the soil accommodates itself to that one among them which, in comparison to the wants of the plant, is present in the smallest quantity.
Justus Von Liebig
#82. It is by studium that I am interested in so many photographs, whether I receive them as political testimony or enjoy them as good historical scenes: for it is culturally (this connotation is present in studium) that I participate in the figures, the faces, the gestures, the settings, the actions.
Roland Barthes
#83. Practicing mindfulness enables us to become a real person. When we are a real person, we see real people around us, and life is present in all its richness.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#84. Among the many certainties whose lack he complained of, one alone is present, and it is that all things appear to us as they appear to us, and it is impossible for them to appear otherwise.
Umberto Eco
#85. 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
#86. Every time you feel miserable, there is present an excellent opportunity to make a big step forward.
Lester Levenson
#87. Law of the Minimum: "The worst potential competition for any organism can come from its own kind. The species consumes necessities. Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount. The least favourable condition controls the rate of growth."
Frank Herbert
#88. Happiness is present time, it has nothing to do with the future.
Robert Holden
#89. Logically, faith comes first, and love next; but in life they will spring up together in the soul; the interval which separates them is impalpable, and in every act of trust, love is present; and fundamental to every emotion of love to Christ is trust in Christ.
Alexander MacLaren
#90. 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
#91. Because if every moment of a life is present in every other, so is every old self you've ever tried to outrun. And then how to know - the present self having always felt flimsy, somehow, compared to the one so acutely alive under the kitchen table - which you, specifically, is the real one?
Garth Risk Hallberg
#92. Safety warning: never divide by zero unless a licensed mathematician is present.
Jordan Ellenberg
#93. Intelligence is present everywhere in our bodies ... our own inner intelligence is far superior to any we can try to substitute from the outside.
Deepak Chopra
#94. Faith will tell us Christ is present, When our human senses fail.
Thomas Aquinas
#95. The requirement of conspicuous wastefulness is ... present as a constraining norm selectively shaping and sustaining our sense of what is beautiful.
Thorstein Veblen
#96. That that life which any the longest liver, or the shortest liver parts with, is for length and duration the very same, for that only which is present, is that, which either of them can lose, as being that only which they have; for that which he hath not, no man can truly be said to lose.
Marcus Aurelius
#97. Latin men love Latin women, it is part of the culture, we celebrate women in a very special way and I think that is present in my work. I do it by making them beautiful, sensual.
Narciso Rodriguez
#98. While eating, our attention should not be focused just on the taste. Imagine our chosen deity or guru is present within us and that we are feeding Him. This will turn eating into a spiritual practice.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#99. I hope that your example attracts many souls to the adoration of Jesus Christ who is present on the altar to be of comfort and hope to those who confide in him with faith and love; they look on him as the Emmanuel, God with us, who wished to dwell amongst us: his heart in our heart
Pope John Paul II
#100. 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
