Top 100 Quotes About Presence
#1. The problem that will doubtless interest future historians is not so much the presence, in the twentieth century, of mass political alienation, but the passivity with which the citizenry accepted that condition. It may well become known as the century of sophisticated deference.
Lawrence Goodwyn
#2. The great benefit of practicing mindfulness ... is presence of mind within a storm of emotions.
Phillip Moffitt
#3. I find it as difficult to understand a scientist who does not acknowledge the presence of a superior rationality behind the existence of the universe as it is to comprehend a theologian who would deny the advances of science.
Wernher Von Braun
#4. It's the presence of others who are smarter, kinder, wiser, and different from you that enables you to evolve. Those are the people to surround yourself with at all times.
Adam Braun
#5. The human MIND seems to work best in the presence of reality. The brain that contains the problem probably also contains the solution. IF the conditions are right, the huge intelligence of the human being surfaces. IDEAS seem to come from nowhere & sometimes STUN US.
Nancy Kline
#6. I began to see, in the place of emptiness, presence. I began to see not only the visible landscape but the invisible one, a landscape in which history, unrecorded and unremembered as it is, had transmuted itself into an always present spiritual dimension.
Sharon Butala
#7. When I am tempted to complain about God's lack of presence, I remind myself that God has much more reason to complain about my lack of presence.
Philip Yancey
#8. We hear eagerly every thought and word quoted from an intellectual man. But in his presence our own mind is roused to activity, and we forget very fast what he says.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#9. Looking at the great values of the feminine principle - relatedness, presence, an open heart, warmth, patience, and trust - I
Massimilla Harris
#10. There is no place so well adapted for the discovery of sin, and recovery from its power and guilt, as the immediate presence of God. Job never knew how to get rid
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#11. The world shows up for us, but it doesn't show up for free. We must show up, too, and bring along what knowledge and skills we've cultivated. As with a painting in a gallery, the world has no meaning-no presence to be experienced-apart from our ability to engagement with it.
Alva Noe
#12. As soon as I got up on that stage, and I remembered how welcoming and warming the judges, their presence is, and it was just all uphill from there.
James Durbin
#13. Every now and then we enter the presence of the numinous and deduce for an instant how we're formed, in what detail the force that infuses every petal might specifically run through us, wishing only to lure us into our full potential.
Mary Karr
#14. The mountains inspire me because they are just still and they have such a strong, quiet presence that feels very old.
Brett Dennen
#15. And all babies were God's blessing, even those who said bugger quite a lot, and whose presence meant that half the potential wage earners in our family couldn't actually go and get a decent job.
Jojo Moyes
#16. My whole life has been spent waiting for an epiphany, a manifestation of God's presence, the kind of transcendent, magical experience that let's you see your place in the big picture. And that is what I had with my first compost heap.
Bette Midler
#17. Inner feeling of satisfaction which may be observed in the presence of a sudden accident, even in those nearest and dearest to the victim ...
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#18. My analysis was directed toward purely physical conditions, such as defective wiring, presence of lack of air spaces between metal flues and woodwork, etc., and the results were presented in these terms.
Benjamin Whorf
#19. Honestly, working with Eddie Murphy was mind-blowing just in terms of the budget alone. To see the respect he commands, to witness his presence, you understand why he and people like Martin Lawrence are stars.
Nicole Ari Parker
#20. One of the consequences of such notions as 'entitlements' is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.
Thomas Sowell
#21. If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing presence in the gene pool, why do we feel they are wrong? Shouldn't the only morality that evolution produces be the kind Bill Clinton had - being sorry you got caught?
Robert J. Sawyer
#22. Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys: Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours.
William Cowper
#23. When you find yourself in the presence of a lion, it's best to know which side of the cage you're on.
Joel T. McGrath
#24. Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.
Tom Chatfield
#25. Exasperatingly, we're all pretty much restricted to learning what people are like with the permanent confound of our own presence, which is why those chance glimpses of someone you love just walking down the street can seem so precious.
Lionel Shriver
#26. True Joy is not the absence of pain but the sanctifying, sustaining presence of the Lord Jesus in the midst of the pain
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#27. He must have a lover of his own, some man or woman or animal whose absence hurt like a presence, some person that he poured himself into like a mold to remind himself of what he was.
Alexandra Kleeman
#28. And one more thing ... You will never again refer to him as 'Hazara boy' in my presence. He has a name and it's Sohrab.
Khaled Hosseini
#29. Each way of being is more valued in the presence of the other. This balance between making camp and following the seasons is both very ancient and very new. We all need both.
Gloria Steinem
#30. Acting like a man means developing a non-anxious presence that sees the big picture, remains calm in a crisis, and won't cave in under pressure. Godly men respond; they don't react.
James MacDonald
#31. I often find things at thrift stores and library sales that I never could have been looking for. In those cases, the research is done after the fact to figure out what, exactly, I've found. It's surprising how much out there still has no online presence.
Michael Dumontier
#32. In the presence of death I affirm and reaffirm the truth of all that I have said against the superstitions of the world. I would say that much on the subject with my last breath.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#33. Nicholas of Cusa said we have to be educated into our ignorance or else the full presence of the divine will be kept at bay. We have to arrive at that difficult point where we don't know what is going on or what we can do. That precise point is an opening to true faith. The
Thomas Moore
#34. The most powerful healing arises from the simple intention to love the life within you, unconditionally, with as much tenderness and presence as possible.
Tara Brach
#35. I can tell you from experience that God's help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.
Joyce Meyer
#36. Then Circled by the golden light of God's Presence and His promise, Paul and Sierra walked side by side along the trail that lead tward the campus and on tward their Future
Robin Jones Gunn
#37. His presence made the air crackle with electricity, mostly because of all the spontaneous ovulating going on when he walked in.
Darynda Jones
#38. I wondered if I were glad or sorry to see it - if I were more pleased with his loyalty to his absent employer, or disappointed that my presence had not made everybody else forgotten.
Anna Katharine Green
#39. Child of God, if you would have your thought of God something beyond a cold feeling of His presence, let faith appropriate Christ.
Frederick William Robertson
#40. I think Facebook is an extraordinarily important part of the Internet ecosystem, and having a robust presence there is a critical part of any brand (or company's) strategy.
John Battelle
#41. But a piece of paper can be a powerful presence. I have always had enormous respect for the written word and invariably find a letter more revealing than a face-to-face conversation. In a strange way I suspect I will get to know you better at a distance than I would if you had stayed at home ...
Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
#42. When you receive God's love, it means you're getting close to Him, spending time in His presence, opening your heart to Him, seeking to know Him, and desiring to be more like Him. Remember that choosing to receive God's love changes your life.
Stormie O'martian
#43. If we Pause and breathe in and out, then we can have the experience of timeless presence, of the inexpressible wisdom and goodness of our own minds. We can look at the world with fresh eyes and hear things with fresh ears.
Pema Chodron
#44. Our children see us a certain way, and we want to be seen by them in a certain way. I certainly want to be a strong, stable, loving, consistent presence in my children's lives. But we are human beings, too.
Annette Bening
#45. Before even when she lay in bed looking frail and weak she still managed to make me feel safe. Mothers do that don't they? Their very presence can help. And even if I ended up mothering her in the final days, she still was taking care of me. I miss her.
Cecelia Ahern
#47. Everything is touched by the holy when it is in the presence of death.
Karl Marlantes
#48. We cannot enter into the presence of God while we are rebelling against God.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#49. God's presence in our lives fills us with His acceptance and love.
Lysa TerKeurst
#50. Because, unfamiliar with the absence of fear and what that was like, I have not been able to identify its presence.
John Knowles
#51. The person who is committing the sin of sloth may be doing nothing visible that is wrong. Yet he is rejecting the presence of God, refusing the joy of love.
Peter Kreeft
#52. I raise the energies
of the people around me:
my presence radiates
unconditional love
and inner peace.
Human Angels
#54. The master is presence. The world is relativity and relativity has limitations. Presence is unlimited.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#55. Signs of the Bastard's holy presence tend to be unmistakable, to those who know Him. The screaming, the altercations, the people running in circles - all that was lacking was something bursting into flame, and I was not entirely sure for a moment you weren't going to provide that as well.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#56. When you're smaller and leaner, you're not going to have that large a presence throughout the world.
Leon Panetta
#57. The presence of a path doesn't necessarily mean the existence of a destination.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#58. 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
#59. I was scared to death, but I made fear score points for me. Fear is right behind me, fear is six inches off my back, that's where fear is. I can feel its presence. But it's not going to catch me ... I'm going to take fear and use it to my advantage.
Bruce Jenner
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. Our children want more than presents, that want our PRESENCE.
Heather Schuck
#63. I tried to avoid Mimi. Her presence seemed to call forth every rejection I'd ever experienced
the teachers who'd looked at me as though I held no promise, the boys who didn't like me back. Around her, I became fourteen again.
Melissa Bank
#64. 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
#65. In the Presence of Love ... there are Miracles ... Live Love, Give Love and Miracle will follow Miracle and wonders will never cease.
Deborah Brooks
#67. Blue felt as if their very presence robbed something from her.
Maggie Stiefvater
#68. I see so little of you these days; your presence is as rare as that of one's discarded mistress.
Charlie Chaplin
#69. 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
#70. "Never speak of me in the past tense". My presence here will be many times greater without the burden of my tortured body.
Rajneesh
#71. You must carry the cross with Christ in this life. Soon enough there will come a time when you will no longer suffer. You will reign with God and He will wipe away your tears with His own hand. In His presence, pain and sighing will forever flee away.
Gene Edwards
#72. One of the lessons from Sept. 11 is that America requires a long-term presence in those parts of the world that endanger us. This notion has become controversial, but frankly, the need could not be clearer.
Rudy Giuliani
#73. 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
#74. Think about your own life. Are there foods or drinks that "call your name" in your weakest moments - like maybe at night in front of the TV? Are there certain "treats" you can hardly resist when they're in your presence? Are there "goodies" that you continue to eat even after you're full?
Josh Bezoni
#75. A creditor is worst than a master; for a master owns only your physical presence, whereas a creditor owns your dignity and may affront it.
Victor Hugo
#76. 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
#77. [Nietzsche] attributes to himself an extremely vivid and sensitive instinct of cleanliness. At the first contact the filth lying at the base of another's nature is revealed to him. The unclean are therefore ill at ease hi his presence
Georg Brandes
#78. Through Jesus we don't need perfect righteousness, just repentant helplessness, to access the presence of God.
Timothy Keller
#79. Do you understand what God has done? He has deposited a Christ seed in you. As it grows you will change. It's not that sin has no more presence in your life, but rather that sin has no more power over your life.
Max Lucado
#80. 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
#81. Meryl Streep does things I would never have thought possible ... Her presence on screen is outstanding.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#82. 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
#83. Destruction doesn't create a vacuum, it simply transforms presence into absence.
Anne Michaels
#84. We should be dissatisfied with the stale, routine way we've been worshiping and seek His presence. We should build the temple and build a relationship with Him that's genuine and real.
Lynn Austin
#85. You may be ignorant of His presence at the time, but that doesn't mean He doesn't exist. If you look, you will find that He was there all along. You can know that God exists.
Ray Comfort
#86. If we had the right sense of our position in the world, if to compare were inseparable from to live, the revelation of our infinitesimal presence would crush us. But to live is to blind ourselves to our own dimensions ... ==========
Anonymous
#87. Meyer closed his eyes, obeying the summons. But this time, Divinity's presence was further away, not as intimate.
Sean Platt
#88. Somewhere in those depths of silence I came upon my first experiences of God as a loving presence that was always near, and prayer as a simple trust in that presence.
Cynthia Bourgeault
#89. 36 He also ordered the Galata Tower to be reduced in height by seven and a half metres to make it less visible a sign of alien presence.
Anonymous
#90. Turning on the lights doesn't make cockroaches appear; the light merely reveals their presence. Similarly, college does not cause anyone to become an unbeliever; college merely reveals that a person was never a genuine believer to begin with.
Todd Friel
#91. He shushed her. "Goodnight. We're trapped together in a small, dark space. For the moment, we're getting on as well as could possibly be expected. I don't think this is the time to remind me of my many valid reasons to resent your presence and despise everything you stand for.
Tessa Dare
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. Greeks were so much a part of the Roman world that, in the surviving texts, they are often more visible by the shadow they cast than by their actual written presence.
Elizabeth Speller
#95. Unless you call attention to your presence who will know you're there? Even a country has to weave and wave a flag as proof of its existence.
Rod McKuen
#96. God makes His presence known in many ways. In acts of love, in selfless acts of courage, in everyday human compassion.
William Kent Krueger
#97. The world has no idea how much it owes to the presence of righteous men in it.
F.F. Bruce
#98. Not a formidable presence, except in that madman way that drunks wield, that does-it-look-like-I-give-a-fuck-about-anything?
Nick Flynn
#99. When you get into your car, after you close the door, pause for a few seconds and observe the flow of your breath. Become aware of a silent but powerful sense of presence.
Eckhart Tolle
#100. I take care of myself and take antioxidating supplements suggested by my best friend and first fan - he takes care of my Internet presence - Doctor Mario Rosario Porzio. I eat well - in fact, very well.
Ornella Muti
