Top 100 Presence Of Quotes
#1. The presence of a path doesn't necessarily mean the existence of a destination.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#2. Christianity isn't meant to simply be believed; it's meant to be lived, shared, eaten, spoken, and enacted in the presence of other people.
Rachel Held Evans
#3. The glorious presence of God is with us. Let us rise in mighty strength to build the nation.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#4. There are three kinds of friends in the world. An ordinary person sees only who you are; for that you don't need a friend. Then there's a friend who sees in you what you can be. And then there's the real holy Friend, and the presence of this Friend you are already.
Shlomo Carlebach
#5. The visual and literary arts are of perennial interest to me, and these art forms have become more and more a part of my life; they have become companions of sorts. I cannot imagine my day to day experiences without the presence of these art forms. They're absolutely essential.
Michael Hersch
#6. Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?
Marquis De Sade
#7. The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important than 30 libraries.
Art Modell
#8. Our judgement is that the presence of the Royal Marines garrison is sufficient deterrent against any possible aggression.
Margaret Thatcher
#9. Most important was to remain focused and always have presence of mind.
Nafisa Joseph
#10. No matter how ugly the manner in which a man dies, it's only the presence of a suffering human soul that is horrifying, once gone, what is left is only an object.
Diana Gabaldon
#11. Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels.
Fran Drescher
#12. Love is the strongest force there is. There is no stronger healing power than love. Love is pure magic. Love transforms people without really does anything. The mere presence of love transforms people. There is nothing more holy than love since love makes people whole.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#13. The offensive presence of Greg Ostertag is quite overwhelming sometimes!
Bill Walton
#14. In the Old Testament, God dealt with His people as a nation ... Their relationship was completely external. But in the New Covenant, the presence of God moved out of the temple and into our hearts.
John Chisum
#15. I know that I am mortal by nature, and ephemeral; but when I trace at my pleasure the windings to and fro of the heavenly bodies I no longer touch the earth with my feet: I stand in the presence of Zeus himself and take my fill of ambrosia
Ptolemy
#16. How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a person who is present?
You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of the beloved if you glimpse a future where the beloved is no more
Milan Kundera
#17. In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.
Jules Verne
#18. The names called privative, therefore, connote two things; the absence of certain attributes, and the presence of others, from which the presence also of the former might naturally have been expected.
John Stuart Mill
#19. Life can grow sweeter and more rewarding as we grow older if we possess the presence of Christ. Sunsets are always glorious. It is Christ who adds colors, glory, and beauty to man's sunsets.
Billy Graham
#20. And guess what he finds. Nothing. And I mean that literally. Not a de Brogliesque absence of presence but a Tertullian presence of absence.
Evan Dara
#21. And the magisterial presence of all those words stopped her in her tracks.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#22. The presence of some serious budgetary myopia is obvious here, as the vast majority of money is spent on studying diseases and virtually none is spent on understanding why healthy people are healthy in the first place.
Richard Matthews
#23. Speak the truth do not become angered and give when asked, even be it a little. By these three conditions one goes to the presence of the gods.
Gautama Buddha
#24. The presence of the policeman around the corner is the only thing that keeps us civilised.
Paul Russell
#25. It is known that wildfires behave unpredictably - this is fundamental - but it is my experience that humans in the presence of wildfire are also likely to behave in aberrant and unpredictable ways.
Michael Leunig
#26. The glory of God in our lives is the experience and expression of the presence of God
Patrick Oben
#28. People like to say the West is a guilt-based culture, while that of Japan is based on shame, with the chief distinction being that the former is an internalized emotion while the latter depends on the presence of a group. But
Barry Eisler
#29. 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
#30. Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
Larry Wall
#32. Adam was placed in Paradise in perfect estate, and in the company of God's angels; God walked and did talk with him. He heard the voice, and beheld the presence of God.
John Jewel
#33. I am not a theologian or a scholar, but I am very aware of the fact that pain is necessary to all of us. In my own life, I think I can honestly say that out of the deepest pain has come the strongest conviction of the presence of God and the love of God.
Elisabeth Elliot
#34. Keep in mind that in the presence of a real itch, the scratches tend to appear more deliberate whereas scratching done to relieve psychological tension tends to be brief and light. Tension
Jeffrey Powell
#35. Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.
Margaret Millar
#36. One of the best ways to practice the presence of the Lord is to thank Him all the time.
Joseph Prince
#37. Remember, Angels are both God's messengers and God's message, witness to eternity in time, to the presence of the divine amidst the ordinary. Every moment of every day is riddled by their traces.
Forrest Church
#38. Sociology has gone the way of poli-sci and econ, now firmly in the clutches of rabid number crunchers who have abandoned or forgotten the link between their abstruse theoretical musings and the presence of human beings on the planet's surface;
Julie Schumacher
#39. Man is always seeking a power, a power to overcome something or destroy something; and therefore he is not living in the awareness of God, because in the realization of the presence of God there is no need to overcome, to destroy, or to do anything.
Joel S. Goldsmith
#40. Do all lovers feel helpless and valiant in the presence of the beloved? Helpless because the need to roll over like a pet dog is never far away. Valiant because you know you would slay a dragon with a pocket knife if you had to.
Jeanette Winterson
#41. Magic underlies the relationship between us, and the greater immensities of birth and death. Thus the experience of being in the presence of something magical is an empowering, uplifting experience. Magic, understood this way, contributes meaning to life.
Brendan Myers
#42. No text can be understood out of its entire context. The most "entire" context is Jesus. Every biblical text must be read in the living presence of Jesus. Every word of the scriptural text is a window or door leading us out of the tarpaper shacks of self into this great outdoors of God's revelation.
Eugene H. Peterson
#43. It drives on with a courage which is stronger than the storm. It drives on with a mercy which does not quail in the presence of death. It drives on as proof, a symbol, a testimony that man is created in the image of God and that valour and virtue have not perished in the British race.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#45. Existence as entirety remains beyond any one meaning and it is the conscious presence of humanness in the world inasmuch as this is nonmeaning, having nothing to do other than be what it is, no longer able to go beyond itself or give itself some kind of meaning through action.
Georges Bataille
#46. Even so, [ ... in the silence after a winter storm has ceased to howl, in the soft whisper of a morning snowfall, in the way the moonlight sparkles over new-fallen snow, you can feel when she has been near by, ever searching. You can sense the presence of the Winter Child.
Cameron Dokey
#47. The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.
Andy Goldsworthy
#48. We need to learn to process things in a different way. I always think of everything in terms of energy. To me, problems represent living in a world of low energy. When you bring higher energy to the presence of lower energy, it dissolves it, it dissipates it, it can't survive.
Wayne Dyer
#49. The world has no idea how much it owes to the presence of righteous men in it.
F.F. Bruce
#50. God will prepare a table before you in the presence of your enemies so let them watch you eat.
Tyler Perry
#51. I felt the strange brooding lonely presence of Nature fostering a new race, a new age, and as part of it, a new expression in Art. It was an unfolding of the heart itself through the effect of environment, of people, of place, and time.
Lawren Harris
#52. "The more we spend our time 'practicing the presence' of Jesus, the more we become like Him"
~ R. Alan Woods
R. Alan Woods
#53. Nothing in or of this world measures up to the simple pleasure of experiencing the presence of God.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#54. Down in the cellar the Gestapo were licensed to practice was the Ministry of Justice called 'heightened interrogation'. The rules had been drawn up by civilised men in warm offices and they stipulated the presence of a doctor.
Robert Harris
#55. Similarly, the presence of God is the central fact of Christianity.
A.W. Tozer
#56. Great leadership isn't shaped in the absence of opposition but in the presence of it. Great leaders draw us together by our universal humanity; they galvanize the wills of the willing; they draw clarity from the spigot of chaos.
Charles M. Blow
#57. The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million, ... but they are, singly, as nothing without the posted presence of the watcher.
Henry James
#58. Even now, it seemed to Gansey that he could feel the aching presence of the nearby mountains, like the space between him and the peaks was a tangible thing.
Maggie Stiefvater
#60. And how do you confess to a beautiful woman that you can't fulfill a relationship because you're tormented by the presence of another woman that doesn't even exist?
Victoria Caro
#62. Yet the presence of death always refreshes experience thus--that is its function: to help us deliberate on the novelty of time.
Lawrence Durrell
#63. A population may be too crowded, though all be amply supplied with food and raiment. It is not good for a man to be kept perforce at all times in the presence of his species ...
John Stuart Mill
#64. Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished bride of quietness, then I am instantly aware that I am in the presence of the literary.
Terry Eagleton
#65. For what that passes among mortals everywhere is not full of folly, done be fools in the presence of fools?
Erasmus
#66. I have noticed a trend in premature deaths in the people that I know and the presence of streetlights outside of their homes.
Steven Magee
#67. Love is just like God. Some believe in it, some don't. You can only feel love and that too if you are open to its existence. Likewise, an atheist cannot feel the presence of the divine because his mind is shut to the possibility of there being one.
Anurag Shourie
#68. So, you pay attention to what is in every moment. And when you do that, then you realize that the presence of God is everywhere.
Deepak Chopra
#69. The human soul finds its saddest imprisonment when it is helpless in the presence of cruelty, when it cannot right a wrong. It finds its highest freedom when it can secure justice to others.
Jenkin Lloyd Jones
#70. If we wish to make any progress in the service of God we must begin every day of our life with new eagerness. We must keep ourselves in the presence of God as much as possible and have no other view or end in all our actions but the divine honor.
Carlo Borromeo
#71. It's a paradise that we are going to go into, because to be in the presence of God itself will be a paradise.
Billy Graham
#72. I have always felt loneliest in the presence of other people. People I can't connect with. People I feel unseen by. People who make me feel insincere or uncomfortable. For me, loneliness comes from a sense of missing something. I never miss anything when I'm alone.
Kate Christensen
#73. Through Jesus we don't need perfect righteousness, just repentant helplessness, to access the presence of God.
Timothy Keller
#74. The presence of many interacting influences, including the attainments of others, create further leeway in how one's performances and outcomes are cognitively appraised
Albert Bandura
#75. One thing I do believe is I'm a believer in the presence of God. I believe that God is close. Whether it's in joy, pain or personal failure, I believe that God is close. That much I feel in my life.
David Gregory
#76. Secure attachment has been linked to a child's ability to successfully recover and prove resilient in the presence of a traumatic event.
Asa Don Brown
#77. In the Presence of Love ... there are Miracles ... Live Love, Give Love and Miracle will follow Miracle and wonders will never cease.
Deborah Brooks
#78. 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
#79. You became the sonnet that was etched in my minds eye. Existing outside the dreams we shared in the presence of our eternal love.
Truth Devour
#80. I pretended indifference ... even in the presence of love, in the presence of hunger. And the more deeply I felt, the less able I was to respond.
Louise Gluck
#81. Even someone like Mrs. Bonnaventura, who had lived a mostly blameless life, when ushered into the awesome presence of the Creator of the infinite universe and also of the butterfly, would discover ten thousand fearsome new layers of meaning in the word humility.
Dean Koontz
#82. The only bright spot in the entire evening was the presence of Kevin "Tubby" Matchwell, the eleven-year-old porker who tackled the role of Santa with a beguiling authenticity. The false beard tended to muffle his speech, but they could hear his chafing thighs all the way to the North Pole.
David Sedaris
#83. If thirst for water indicates the existence of water, in a similar way thirst for justice indicates the existence of justice, and since there is no justice in this world, this is indicates the presence of an afterlife, the home of true justice.
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
#84. Success as a Christian is to become the essence of the presence of God on earth
Sunday Adelaja
#85. I think the presence of caste in India, how the villages are geographically structured on caste lines, is very different from China. The presence of an egalitarian culture is striking in a Chinese village.
Pankaj Mishra
#86. I feel comfortable in the presence of oddity. Probably because I'm a little bit odd.
Martha Plimpton
#87. But the presence of the young woman had touched a lot of people there, and some were ready to rethink their lives.
Paulo Coelho
#88. I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be.
Suzanne Collins
#89. Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
Charles Lamb
#90. If you compare statistics on different types of households, you find that the presence of an adult male means more additional work for the woman than the presence of a child under ten, even when the man believes himself to be sharing the housework equally.*
Mary Catherine Bateson
#91. The presence of passion, faith, and belief in our hearts is a gift. It's on loan to our souls.
Priscilla Shirer
#92. Shame is much more likely to be the cause of destructive behavior than the cure. Guilt and empathy are the emotions that lead us to question how our actions affect other people, and both of these are severely diminished by the presence of shame.
Brene Brown
#93. When you are in the presence of someone whose seed is in you, you've to cultivate that seed and make sure that seed depict you.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#94. I have felt something in the garden I discovered. I have felt the presence of something other. And now, standing in the dark, with a salt wind blowing up from the invisible sea, from the remembered beloved river ...
Helen Humphreys
#95. 7 Leave the presence of a fool, for there you do not meet words of knowledge.
Anonymous
#96. When I'm present, I meet I AM, the very presence of a present God. In His embrace, time loses all sense of speed and stress and space and stands so still and ... holy. Here is the only place I can love Him.
Ann Voskamp
#97. Love is a funny thing, isn't it? The presence of it can bring you to save a foe, the absence of it can make you hurt your own flesh.
Stefanie Schneider
#99. Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice.
Harrison Ford
#100. If you have sown in love and tried to do everything as unto Jesus Christ, then you will reap happiness and joy and will be able to enjoy the everlasting presence of the Lord in all you lay your hand to, and do.
Sunday Adelaja
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