Practicing His Presence Quotes

#1. Listening to God - which is a key part of practicing His presence - is not a method, but a walk with a person.

Leanne Payne

#2. If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little.

Anne Lamott

#3. The 'peace' the gospel brings is never the absence of conflict, but an ineffable divine reassurance within the heart of conflict; a peace that surpasses understanding.

Walter Wink

#4. There's a lot of surplus rage from the '60s that was never really worked through publicly. I think a lot of that rage still exists, and I think you see that when John McCain runs a commercial that beats up on Hillary Clinton's earmark for a Woodstock museum.

Rick Perlstein

#5. The great benefit of practicing mindfulness ... is presence of mind within a storm of emotions.

Phillip Moffitt

#6. I want to get more muscly.

Nicholas Hoult

#7. "The more we spend our time 'practicing the presence' of Jesus, the more we become like Him"

~ R. Alan Woods

R. Alan Woods

#8. The happiest moments are when we sit down and we feel the presence of our brothers and sisters, lay and monastic, who are practicing walking and sitting mediation.

Nhat Hanh

#9. Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it.

Paul Newman

#10. The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished.

Edward A. Murphy Jr.

#11. Missions is practicing God's presence until His passion compels us to obey.

Ann Dunagan

#12. It takes practice to become proficient at something. Practicing the presence of God will make us good at it.

R. Alan Woods

#13. Baseball is all I ever wanted. I could eat, sleep, and dream baseball.

Smoky Joe Wood

#14. Begin with the possible; begin with one step.

G.I. Gurdjieff

#15. I can make dopey decisions for which I have to pay. If I take some little old lady's superannuation money, I would be mortified if things didn't go to plan.

Len Buckeridge

#16. Show me what you can do; don't tell me what you can do.

John Wooden

#17. I came to Christ when I was thirty-eight. That transformed my life.

Jennifer O'Neill

#18. One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil.

James Lovelock

#19. Neither marriage's heart nor adventure are found in the banner days, those events we record and look back on. The glory is the ordinary.

R.C. Sproul Jr.

#20. Brother Lawrence called this "practicing the presence" of God, and the most important part of that practice lay in "renouncing, once and for all, whatever does not lead to God.

John Ortberg

#21. I'd kissed plenty of boys in my time but never one that made my head spin to the point that it made me forget where I was.

Jay Crownover

#22. The acknowledgment that God is always with us - even when we are least aware of it in our sensory being - requires discipline. To acknowledge the Unseen Real requires a concerted effort of our will at first. This is why the term practicing the presence is so useful.

Leanne Payne

#23. Hold'em - like life itself - has its defining moment. It's the flop. When you see the flop, you're looking at 71 percent of your hand, and the cost is only a single round of betting.

Lou Krieger

#24. I don't think I've ever met a girl with a bazooka for a pet." Hunter looked both amazed and slightly frightened.
"That's Kitty," I said, pointing to the large weapon. "I got her for my tenth birthday.

Ada Adams

#25. I don't really ever think in terms of what type of person I'd love to play. I usually just read stuff and can tell. It's always fun to get to do things that stretch you and that you don't get to do a lot, but you never know until you see it.

Lauren Bowles

#26. Egypt is practicing its very normal role on its soil and does not threaten anyone and there should not be any kind of international or regional concerns at all from the presence of Egyptian security forces.

Mohammed Morsi

#27. 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