Top 100 Quotes About Presence Of God
#1. Getting answers to my questions is not the goal of the spiritual life. Living in the presence of God is the greater call.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#2. He died for us. He has forgiven us. He has given Himself to us in the person of His Spirit. If we are His, no power on earth or in heaven or in hell can prevent His bringing us to Himself in the eternal presence of God.
Henry H. Halley
#3. Our play is not something separate from our spirituality; it is itself a sign of the presence of God in the world.
Ken Shigematsu
#4. By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.
Saint Francis De Sales
#5. To know God is not a matter of education, but of illumination. The stairwell to illumination is utter fascination in the presence of God. Push out all other activities and come in silent wonder and admiration in the presence of God. Then God will open up His heart and illuminate Himself to you.
A.W. Tozer
#6. Virtually every spiritual tradition teaches that your higher self is the presence of God within you.
Wayne Dyer
#7. Jesus has no house, because his house is the people; it is we who are his dwelling place; his mission is to open God's doors to all, to be the presence of God's love.
Pope Francis
#8. Anyone who enters into an intimate relationship with God can see God do exceptional things through his or her life. The outcome does not depend upon a person being unusually gifted, educated, or wealthy. The key is the indwelling presence of God doing unusual things
Henry T. Blackaby
#9. When man comes into the presence of God he will find, whether he wishes it or not, that all those things which seemed to make him so different from the men of other times, or even from his earlier self, have fallen off. He is back where he always was, where every man always is.
C.S. Lewis
#10. The whole world has risen in Christ ... If God is 'all in all,' then everything is in fact paradise, because it is filled with the glory and presence of God, and nothing is any more separated from God.
Thomas Merton
#11. Pray for whatsoever you will. In the name of Jesus you have permission, not only to stand in the presence of God, but also to pray for everything you need.
Ole Hallesby
#12. We only learn to behave ourselves in the presence of God.
C.S. Lewis
#13. If you are mindful, you can eat the bread and the bread represents the whole cosmos ... You set the table, you lay the food in the presence of God. Mindfulness is the awareness that shines on every act in every moment.
Gustav Niebuhr
#14. We do not segment our lives, giving some time to God, some to our business or schooling, while keeping parts to ourselves. The idea is to live all of our lives in the presence of God, under the authority of God, and for the honor and glory of God. That is what the Christian life is all about.
R.C. Sproul
#15. 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
#16. Wide awake to the presence of God, I realized I had been so focused on asking why a good God allowed bad things to happen that I was missing out on the nearness of God all along. In becoming preoccupied with the why, I was missing the who.
Margaret Feinberg
#17. Are our lives truly filled with the presence of God? How many things take the place of God in my life each day?
Pope Francis
#18. Conscience tells us in our innermost being of the presence of God and of the moral difference between good and evil; but this is a fragmentary message, in no way as distinct and comprehensive as the lessons of the Bible.
Billy Graham
#19. One important point many fail to understand is that the Bible was never meant to replace God; rather, it was meant to lead us into the heart of God. Too many Christians stop with the text and never go on to experience the presence of God.
A.W. Tozer
#20. The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of the presence of God.
Prayer becomes real when we grasp the reality and goodness of God's constant presence with 'the real me.' Jesus lived his everyday life in conscious awareness of his Father.
John Ortberg Jr.
#21. In the presence of God, nothing stands between Him and us - we are forgiven. But we cannot feel His presence if anything is allowed to stand between ourselves and others.
Dag Hammarskjold
#22. Only when we are captured by an overwhelming sense of awe and reverence in the presence of God, will we begin to worship God in spirit and in truth.
Alistair Begg
#23. True peace comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of God and will be deep and passing all understanding in the exact measure in which we live in and partake of the love of God.
Alexander MacLaren
#24. There is a strain of loneliness infecting many Christians, which only the presence of God can cure.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#25. The mark of the true church is an expanding witness to the presence of God.
Gregory Beale
#26. Granting that we are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense; for they, as it were, see that He is looking upon them, while others may go for days on end without even once recollecting that God sees them.
Teresa Of Avila
#27. More often than not it's this fear of losing people and this attempt to keep people in the church that causes pastors to neglect seeking the presence of God
Sunday Adelaja
#28. 2. Evolve and Be God: As we invoke the presence of Source, holding the focus through our mantras, we are drawing more and more proximity to the object of worship and gradually, we attain all the attributes we are invoking, i.e., we slowly evolve to be Angelic, invoking the presence of God/Source.
Nandhiji
#29. Rather be alone in the presence of God than with a crowd outside the presence of God.
Evans Biya
#30. A marvelous thing it would be to stand with confidence, unafraid, unashamed, and unembarrassed in the presence of God.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#31. The mind's continual keeping in the presence of God 8 and the concentration of its thoughts on Him would so enrage the fiend that, although he might try the experiment once, he
Teresa Of Avila
#32. We are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense.
Teresa Of Avila
#33. It should be pursued as in the presence of God, and under the solemn sanctions created by a lively sense of his omniscience, and of our accountability to him for the right use of the faculties which he has bestowed.
Simon Greenleaf
#34. The effect on human consciousness of the experience of the Presence of God is subjectively transformative and identical throughout human history. It leaves a timeless mark that is verifiable as a calibration of a recorded level of conciousness.
David Hawkins
#35. Let this, then, be our first lesson: the presence of God is the chief thing, in our devotions.
Andrew Murray
#36. Prayer is the window that God has placed in the walls of our world. Leave it shut and the world is a cold, dark house. But throw back the curtains and see His light. Open the window and hear His voice. Open the window of prayer and invoke the presence of God in your world.
Max Lucado
#37. Prayer is such an ordinary, everyday, mundane thing. Certainly, people who pray are no more saints than the rest of us. Rather, they are people who want to share a life with God, to love and be loved, to speak and to listen, to work and to be at rest in the presence of God.
Roberta Bondi
#38. To celebrate the inner presence of God . . . is to become grateful for every moment of life. Every mundane and every juicy moment is sacred because God is alive in us . .
Jeff Imbach
#39. If we are hungry enough for God, we will find a way into His presence. We should be so hungry for the presence of God that we absolutely will not go out of our house or tackle any kind of project until we have spent some time with Him.
Joyce Meyer
#40. I encourage Christians regularly to visit Christ present in the Blessed Sacrament, for we are all called to abide in the presence of God.
Pope John Paul II
#41. When we begin to fully understand worship and come to the realization that we are standing in the presence of God, our worship experience will come alive and be much more powerful.
Leland Watson
#42. David knew what mattered most. The presence of God. He begged God for it.
Max Lucado
#43. Honor is the presence of God in man.
Pat Conroy
#44. It takes practice to become proficient at something. Practicing the presence of God will make us good at it.
R. Alan Woods
#45. Think not that when thou art dry and darksom in the presence of God, with faith and silence, that thou do'st nothing, that thou losest time, and that thou are idle, because not to wait on God, according to the saying of St. Bernard (Tom.5.in Fract. de vit. solit.c.8.p. 90.), is the greatest idleness
Miguel De Molinos
#46. Hence that dread and amazement with which as Scripture uniformly relates holy men were struck and overwhelmed whenever they beheld the presence of God. Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance until they have.
John Calvin
#47. There is no environment where man can flee to escape the revelational presence of God (Ps. 139:8).
Greg L. Bahnsen
#48. You cannot be in the presence of God and be bored at the same time. For that matter, you cannot be in the will of God and be bored at the same time.
Mark Batterson
#49. It is not enough to be a member of the Church of Christ, one needs to be a living member, in spirit and in truth, i.e., living in the state of grace and in the presence of God, either in innocence or in sincere repentance.
Pope Pius XI
#50. There is no better way to serve others than to pray for them. There is nothing about which I do not pray. I go over all my life in the presence of God. All my problems are solved there.
Samuel Chadwick
#52. Noticing helps you realize that your life is already suffused with the presence of God. Once you begin to look around and allow yourself to take a chance to believe in God, you will easily see God at work in your life.
James Martin
#53. We should have all our communications with men, as in the presence of God; and with God, as in the presence of men.
Charles Caleb Colton
#54. I think intellectualizing annoys me because it is the enemy of experience; you cannot experience the presence of God and analyze it at the same time. You can't analyze anything and experience it simultaneously.
Frederica Mathewes-Green
#55. Joy is not necessarily the absence of suffering, it is the presence of God.
Sam Storms
#56. The Bible says no one has ever looked upon God and lived. God is perfectly good, and can't be in the presence of evil, even the smallest evil. Without his Son's sacrifice as a covering, we can't be in the presence of God without being destroyed, because his anger would be kindled against us.
John Michael Hileman
#57. That is one of the reasons I write: to feel the Presence of God and know He is speaking to me in a very personal way, instructing me, correcting me, redirecting me.
Francine Rivers
#58. Let the presence of God INVADE you today. It's all about Him ... don't get distracted by the stupid things of the enemy. Remember, God wins!
Kari Jobe
#59. When my time to die comes an angel will be there to comfort me. He will give me peace and joy even at that most critical hour, and usher me into the presence of God, and I will dwell with the Lord forever. Thank God for the ministry of His blessed angels.
Billy Graham
#60. It is not necessary to maintain a conversation when we are in the presence of God. We can come into His presence and rest our weary souls in quiet contemplation of Him. Our groanings, which cannot be uttered, rise to Him and tell Him better than words how dependent we are upon Him.
Ole Hallesby
#61. Each day is a step we make towards eternity and we shall continue thus to step from day to day until we take the last step, which will bring us into the presence of God.
Catherine McAuley
#62. I drove away from my mind everything capable of spoiling the sense of the presence of God ... I just make it my business to persevere in His holy presence ... My soul has had an habitual, silent, secret conversation with God.
Brother Lawrence
#63. The presence of God is the finest of rewards.
Yann Martel
#64. Success as a Christian is to become the essence of the presence of God on earth
Sunday Adelaja
#67. Believe that when you come into the presence of God you can have all you came for. You can take it away, and you can use it, for all the power of God is at your disposal in response to your faith.
Smith Wigglesworth
#68. I find joy and peace in the presence of God and the Holy Spirit sustains that worship, renewing my mind and restoring my heart ... His radiance inspires us and enables us to bring Him the adoration due His name.
Laura Story
#69. 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
#70. We cannot enter into the presence of God while we are rebelling against God.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#71. 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
#72. 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
#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. Through Jesus we don't need perfect righteousness, just repentant helplessness, to access the presence of God.
Timothy Keller
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. Similarly, the presence of God is the central fact of Christianity.
A.W. Tozer
#79. Nothing in or of this world measures up to the simple pleasure of experiencing the presence of God.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. 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
#84. The glory of God in our lives is the experience and expression of the presence of God
Patrick Oben
#85. 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
#86. The glorious presence of God is with us. Let us rise in mighty strength to build the nation.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#87. The practice of the presence of God, though we begin it at special times of prayer, is designed to spill out and over and into all times.
Peter Kreeft
#88. The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#89. The less importance he attached to the opinion of men, the more did he feel the presence of God within him.
Leo Tolstoy
#90. So, we pray well when we remain in this way in the presence of God, with no exertion of the understanding or will. Therefore, you will do well to listen to God in the urge you feel to return to us.
Vincent De Paul
#92. The presence of God is always with you.
Be strong and courageous. Fear not! God will grant you the strength to overcome any adversity.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#93. Nothing but the presence of God can reveal and expel self.
Andrew Murray
#94. We rarely think of the air we breathe, yet it is in us and around us all the time. In similar fashion, the presence of God penetrates us, is all around us, is always embracing us.
Thomas Keating
#95. In the house of God there is never ending festival; the angel choir makes eternal holiday; the presence of God's face gives joy that never fails.
Saint Augustine
#96. An hour spent in the presence of God brings the purest joy known to man.
E. Stanley Jones
#97. This signifies that the presence of God is so smeared or rubbed on you like oil, that His presence is left on you, causing divine excellence and power.
Chris Oyakhilome
#98. He had decided to live there because the view was so beautiful, because, from his vantage point, he seemed to be looking out onto the incarnation of a divine being. But who was he to be pampered with daily and hourly sight of loveliness? Who was he to be living in the visible presence of God?
Aldous Huxley
#99. Opposition doesn't prevent the presence of God, it provides an opportunity to prove the presence of God.
Steven Furtick
#100. And if one feels anything in the presence of God save an utter poverty of spirit, it ultimately means that you have never faced Him.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
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