Top 100 Quotes About God's Presence
#1. The real mystery of marriage is not that husband and wife love each other so much that they can recognize God in each other's lives, but more because God loves them so much that they can discover each other more and more as living reminder's of God's presence.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#2. 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
#4. The more I see God in these relationships with my children, the more I've become aware of how easily we can wall God's presence off from very important areas of our lives.
Ed Cyzewski
#6. I have purposed to try to live in such a way that nothing ever gets bigger than my consciousness of God's presence.
Bill Johnson
#7. Where God's presence is no longer a tenable proposition and where his absence is no longer a felt, indeed overwhelming weight, certain dimensions of thought and creativity are no longer attainable.
Rudolf Steiner
#8. You see, the main problem with our overspending and breaking budgets isn't money. It's trying to fill a need inside ourselves with things instead of God's presence and love. I
Melissa K. Norris
#9. We'll probably never learn to enjoy our storms, but we can learn to enjoy God's presence in the midst of them.
Beth Moore
#10. We enjoy the sense of God's presence in the midst of suffering here and now. I have talked to people who are experiencing deep pain or severe difficulties, and they have said, I feel God is so close to me.
Billy Graham
#11. It's describing the mystery of faith. I think it describes how difficult it is to believe in God's presence even when we can't see Him, even when we feel so alone and need His presence.
Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson
#12. Vision is the ability to see God's presence, to perceive God's power, to focus on God's plan in spite of the obstacles.
Charles R. Swindoll
#13. You don't have to die and go to heaven. All you have to do to be in God's presence is choose Him. All you have to do is believe.
Crystal McVea
#14. Closet communion needs time for the revelation of God's presence. It is vain to say, "I have too much work to do to find time." You must find time or forfeit blessing. God knows how to save for you the time you sacredly keep for communion with Him.
Arthur Tappan Pierson
#15. Prayer and God's word connect us to God's presence even with the light and help of the Holy Spirit.
Ibiloye Abiodun Christian
#16. Before there was a proper understanding and a sense of God's presence, the idea that everything would one day end was utterly desolating.
Paulo Coelho
#17. It washed all over me and through me, into the floor and then it was gone. I never cried for my Da again after that, and God's presence has been with me ever since. - Adien MacRae, BETWEEN
Cyndi Tefft
#19. It is not objective proof of God's existence that we want but, whether we use religious language for it or not, the experience of God's presence.
Frederick Buechner
#21. The goal of faith isn't to take away your fears but to leverage those fears to create bolder belief. Faith leads you past your fears and reassures you of God's presence. And after a while, you begin to trust that God is going to lift you above the waves this time just like he did last time.
Steven Furtick
#22. If in our Saturday pursuits we're far from God's presence, we're not in very good shape to worship Him on Sunday.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#23. All ages are equidistant from eternity, and just as immediately accessible to God's presence.
Leopold Von Ranke
#24. Visitation of God's presence is a byproduct of worship. However, we don't worship in order to gain His presence. He is worthy to be worshipped whether or not He chooses to show up.
John Wimber
#25. Climbing in the Spirit is accompanied by kneeling, and not by running; by surrender, and not by determination. Despair of self leads to utter desperation; but beyond these mists lies the sunshine of God's presence.
V. Raymond Edman
#26. The realization of God's presence is the one sovereign remedy against temptation.
Francois Fenelon
#27. Worship helps us find who we are and why God has placed us here on the earth. When we bow in God's presence with worship, only then are we made complete.
Judson Cornwall
#28. (Whereas we are inclined to equate the reality and the sense of the reality, these are different things - there can be a reality of God's presence and activity whether we feel it or not, and we can have a sense of God's reality and activity but the sense may be false.)
John E. Goldingay
#29. Having the reality of God's presence is not dependent on our being in a particular circumstance or place, but is only dependent on our determination to keep the Lord before us continually.
Oswald Chambers
#30. The importance of coming into God's presence is worth overcoming all obstacles along the way.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#31. Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God's presence.
Joyce Meyer
#32. The true purpose of prayer is to get into God's presence so He can outline His agenda for us.
Mark Batterson
#33. Only the power of God's presence can truly revive a nation.
Sunday Adelaja
#35. Is it ever possible to overdo the talking about the glory of Christ? Is it ever too often to be in God's presence?
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#36. Our battles are first won or lost in the secret places of our will in God's presence, never in full view of the world.
Oswald Chambers
#37. Even with tortured minds and broken spirits, even bound to the Surface, they ached for God's presence. It would be like being drawn back into the womb. It would be rest. It was the only real redemption there was.
Vicki Pettersson
#38. If pinpointing God's presence were really that simple, then he supposed the beaches would be more crowded in the mornings. They would be filled with people on their own quests, instead of people jogging or walking their dogs or fishing in the surf.
Nicholas Sparks
#39. One of the hallmarks of a life well lived, a life worthy to return to God's presence and receive a fulness of the Father, is to be "valiant in the testimony of Jesus". Paul was valiant, and we can be valiant as well. To be "valiant in the testimony of Jesus" is to be faithful.
Lawrence E. Corbridge
#40. I don't know a single person who truly seems to bear the mark of God's presence and power in his or her life who hasn't been asked by God to be obedient in a way that was dramatically painful.
Beth Moore
#41. Play is an expression of God's presence in the world; one clear sign of God's absence in society is the absence of playfulness and laughter.
Mike Yaconelli
#42. We expect God's presence to be thunderous, spectacular, monumental; but it is our need that is so large. The real presence slips past our demands for spectacle. It slips past our despair.
Tim Farrington
#43. Live more quietly. Live more seeking God's presence in your own heart.
Goswami Kriyananda
#44. A Christian knows when it is time to speak of God and when it is better to say nothing and to let love alone speak. He knows that God is love and that God's presence is felt at the very time when the only thing we do is to love.
Pope Benedict XVI
#46. He finally understood that God's presence was everywhere, at all times, and was experienced by everyone at one time or another.
Nicholas Sparks
#47. The master never counseled slavish belief. 'Words are only shells,' he said. 'Win conviction of God's presence through your own joyous contact in meditation.' "No
Paramahansa Yogananda
#48. When genuine love is released in a relationship, God's presence is manifest.
Peter Scazzero
#49. The one thing you absolutely need is the one thing you can never lose: God's presence and love for you. Just have to talk to him.
Keke Palmer
#52. Mary knew God loved her. From the moment Gabriel appeared to her, Mary has a distinct sense that God's presence was with her and His hand upon her. She didn't understand everything that was happening, but she was certain that God would be with her through it all.
Stormie O'martian
#53. Living in the Glory of God's presence is to extend his domain of love
Sunday Adelaja
#54. Those who enjoy God's presence feast on His Word as if it was the tastiest treat in the world. But
Asheritah Ciuciu
#55. Smiling face of every little girl is the signature of God's presence.
Amit Ray
#56. Everyone has his sphere of influence or territory in a society, which is a place where he is called to bring God's presence
Sunday Adelaja
#57. When a person is resolute [determined, sold out, dedicated, single-minded] in his faith and recognizes God's Presence everywhere, he is protected from all sides.
Gloria Copeland
#58. This is the first thing the Holy Spirit does in your life. He brings you God's presence, and when He does, you will no longer be in the dark. The Holy Spirit has a beautiful identity. He is called 'The Angel of God's presence.' He is the One Who brings us the presence of God and makes it real to us.
Chris Oyakhilome
#59. To be a Christian is to realize that in your sin, you were separated from God's presence, and you deserved nothing but God's wrath.
David Platt
#61. The central question is, Are the leaders of the future truly men and women of God, people with an ardent desire to dwell in God's presence, to listen to God's voice, to look at God's beauty, to touch God's incarnate Word and to taste fully God's infinite goodness.
Henri Nouwen
#62. When I do things my way, I exhaust pleasure very quickly. It is not that Christianity has failed to teach me how to delight in God's presence; it is that I have failed by seeking pleasure through godless ways or by resisting God's provision for me because it is not what I want.
Ravi Zacharias
#63. In other words, he explained, unless we bear witness to God's presence by our own good deeds, He is not present.
Thomas L. Friedman
#64. Prayer means that we have come boldly into the throne room and we are standing in God's presence.
E.W. Kenyon
#65. There are only two ways that God's justice can be satisfied with respect to your sin. Either you satisfy it or Christ satisfies it. You can satisfy it by being banished from God's presence forever. Or you can accept the satisfaction that Jesus Christ has made.
R.C. Sproul
#66. We may excuse the spiritual poverty of our preaching in many ways, but the true secret will be found in the lack of urgent prayer for God's presence in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#67. The thing is that oftentimes, we want to be everything all at once. We want to be strong and mature, and God wants that for us, too. But just like that flowerpot had to sit in the sun and receive water day after day, we have to sit in God's presence every day, too.
Victoria Osteen
#68. The world doesn't need more great messages, more great bands, or even more great church services. We need more of God's presence.
Kurtis Parks
#69. A faithful worship leader magnifies the greatness of God in Jesus Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit by skillfully combining God's Word with music, thereby motivating the gathered church to proclaim the gospel, to cherish God's presence, and to live for God's glory.
Bob Kauflin
#70. More is accomplished by spending time in God's presence than by doing anything else.
Heidi Baker
#71. God's presence in our lives is the peace of mind and joy at heart.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#72. Trying to be happy without a sense of God's presence is like trying to have a bright day without the sun.
A.W. Tozer
#73. It is not the objective proof of God's existence that we want but the experience of God's presence. That is the miracle we are really after, and that is also, I think, the miracle that we really get.
Frederick Buechner
#74. Your serenity matters to heaven. God's presence encapsulates your life.
Max Lucado
#75. Take God's presence to people and they will follow to the source of life- to God himself
Sunday Adelaja
#76. I am simply an average, everyday Christian guy who has been radically changed by the good news about God's presence in His world. This has primarily happened as I have learned how to read the Bible for what it says, in the way it says it.
Christopher M. Morgan
#77. Having the answers is not essential to living. What is essential is the sense of God's presence during dark seasons of questioning.
Ravi Zacharias
#78. If you have God's presence, you have favor. One minute of God's presence can accomplish more than 20 years of your striving.
Heidi Baker
#79. Christ is the door that opens into God's presence and lets the soul into His very bosom, faith is the key that unlocks the door; but the Spirit is He that makes this key.
William Gurnall
#80. Now we can come fearlessly right into God's presence, assured of his glad welcome when we come with Christ and trust in him.
Anonymous
#81. The light of God's presence in our lives is a purifying flame that will draw us near to Him.
Billy Graham
#82. When we're most exhausted, we're expending more energy fighting the enemy than we are seeking God's presence. More than you seek to win, seek Christ! More than you seek to defeat the enemy, seek his foe! More than you seek victory, seek the Victor!
Beth Moore
#83. Life should be a constant vision of God's presence. Here is our defense against being led away by the gauds and shows of earth's vulgar attractions.
Alexander MacLaren
#84. We don't need answers and explanations as much as we need God's presence in and through the suffering.
Tullian Tchividjian
#85. From nature one can learn the lessons of divine providence, and some of us need to be reminded of this because we can look and not see a world alive with God's presence.
Scot McKnight
#86. Selah Moments: those times we lean into God's presence, hear His voice, and willingly receive the golden nuggets of truth-revelation He gifts us with.
Jo Ann Fore
#87. Missions is practicing God's presence until His passion compels us to obey.
Ann Dunagan
#88. Our society holds to youthfulness with a white-knuckled grip. Ultimately it's all in vain. But the gospel promises us eternal youthfulness in God's presence.
Randy Alcorn
#89. Prayer brings you into God's presence, where our shortcomings are exposed.
Timothy Keller
#90. This is the essence of worship: entering into God's presence and expressing God's worth, both because of who he is and because of what he has done.
Kevin Scott
#91. In God's presence I feel small because I am small.
Philip Yancey
#92. Nothing bothers the devil more than a Christian delighting in God's presence.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#93. We can be dry as dust, distracted and insensible to God's presence. Still we can pray ... and if we make even the smallest gesture of availability he will be there.
Carol Zaleski
#94. God's presence is everywhere around us. God is able to penetrate intertwine himself within the fibers of the human self in such a way that those who are enveloped in His loving companionship will never be alone. page 59
Dallas Willard
#95. We want to go to God for answers, but sometimes what we get is God's presence.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#96. God takes everyone he loves through a desert. It is his cure for our wandering hearts, restlessly searching for a new Eden ...
The best gift of the desert is God's presence ... The protective love of the Shepherd gives me courage to face the interior journey.
Paul E. Miller
#97. If we must "feel" God's presence before we believe he is with us, we again reduce God to our ability to grasp him, making him an idol instead of acknowledging him as God.
Craig S. Keener
#98. The search for God's presence was much of a mystery as God himself, and what was God if not a mystery?
Nicholas Sparks
#99. You know people just assume, 'Well, all my life I'll be a worrier.' That doesn't have to be true. There's a way to drink from God's presence so much that worry begins to dissipate.
Max Lucado
#100. That we should establish ourselves in a sense of GOD's Presence, by continually conversing with Him. That it was a shameful thing to quit His conversation, to think of trifles and fooleries.
Brother Lawrence
