Quotes On His Presence

#1. I listened to the wind bury winter; and when I tasted his grace, his grace had no name; only, night became something else in his presence, as though darkness had a soul, here, swaying to heartbeats roaring.

Marjorie M. Liu

#2. If Jesus is to become the center of our life, we need to spend time in His presence, before the Tabernacle.

Pope Francis

#3. He gave her that last word. He gave her his love. He would think of her almost every day for the rest of his life. Only his presence would he withhold.

Edith Pearlman

#4. Jesus did not stand as a prophet and utter judgements; wherever He went the unerring directness of His presence located men.

Oswald Chambers

#5. We don't have to convince an unwilling God to come and refresh us with His presence. He's for it. But, He cannot be manipulated. But when sincere hearts who know they cannot do His work nor His will without Him, humbly pray, He will answer.

J. Edwin Orr

#6. Whenever you possibly can, sustain the flow of the Holy Name. To repeat His Name is to be in His presence. If you associate with the Supreme Friend, He will reveal His true beauty to you.

Radhanath Swami

#7. If fear appears at your door you have two options, either you choose to let it in or you choose to grab onto the Lord and the promise of His presence no matter what.

Yilda B. Rivera

#8. And then I did what I had never done in his presence, much less in his arms. I cried.

Erich Segal

#9. His presence in my waking world stirred all my senses. Still in slow motion, I kept walking, warmed wherever his eyes touched me. When I finally dropped eye contact, the world caught up with me
or the other way around.

Gwen Hayes

#10. Ivan felt an intense hatred for him before he had thought about him at all. Suddenly he realised his presence and felt an irresistible impulse to knock him down.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#11. The Creator, in taking infinite pains to shroud with mystery His presence in every atom of creation, could have had but one motive - a sensitive desire that men seek Him only through free will.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#12. ...she had developed such a quiet comfort in his presence, like all the hurt of the world couldn't touch her. Yet, every once in a while, that comfort would switch to an ache for something more. Right now, that ache was intense and pounding.

Sibylla Matilde

#13. Ses'ach L'ru!" Came the slightly muffled chorus. This was Ruminarii for 'Hail the Captain.' Marsh'k sat down on his seat of office. It made a muted and rather obscene noise as he sank into the seat and the device registered his presence.

Christina Engela

#14. the Lord is in His holy temple; let everyone on earth be silent in His presence. t

Anonymous

#15. Knowing the voice of the Lord, obeying Him, and dwelling in His presence," William recounted.

Rick Joyner

#16. Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

Morris West

#17. His presence, so strange and wonderful, seemed to fill the room and press against me. I didn't think I'd ever sleep again.

Maggie Stiefvater

#18. A great leader also has the ability to make people an inch taller in his presence.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

#19. His presence and testimony highlighted the unfairness of expecting an indigent defendant to get a fair trial without giving him access to forensic experts. Barney had requested such assistance months earlier, and Judge Jones had declined.

John Grisham

#20. No matter how vast our pit, prayer is big enough to fill us with the realization of His presence like nothing else.

Lysa TerKeurst

#21. Some impudent young Parisian had made a malicious reference in his presence to the latest theories suggesting a link between primitive man and lower species. Dumas replied: "Yes, sir, I do indeed come from the monkey. But you, sir, are returning to one!" He

Umberto Eco

#22. His presence is the only place where invisible weight is lifted. The only place where hidden, broken spaces are mended. The only place where we are defined apart from our successes and our failures.

Jennie Allen

#23. God does not call us to holiness to keep us from pleasure. It is a call to experience the fullness of pleasure that can only be found in His presence.

Praying Medic

#24. With any president it is difficult to predict how the world will be effected by his presence in the white house.

Diahann Carroll

#25. Intimacy is a key to greater spiritual authority and power. We need to grow in intimacy to be able to demonstrate God's Will on earth "as it is in heaven" effectively. To the degree that His presence and glory influence us, we will influence those around us.

Paul Yadao

#26. His presence in a room was more cheering than the brightest fire.

Charlotte Bronte

#27. We have a blood bought covenant with God that says we are His and He is ours. We are loved, and have a right to call to Him, call on Him and have His presence in our lives through worship, bible study and prayer - p. 14

Wanda L. Scott

#28. I tell the truth: your enemy is also your friend-his presence makes your life fuller and richer.

Muhammad Iqbal

#29. We must be as satisfied to be powerless, idle and still before God, and dried up and barren when He permits it, as to be full of life, enjoying His presence with ease and devotion. The whole matter of our union with God consists in being content either way.

Jane Frances De Chantal

#30. 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

#31. When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was - he only saw the brightness of the Lord.

George Eliot

#32. Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins.

Alphonsus Liguori

#33. His presence alone works wonders for a wounded soul

Colleen Hoover

#34. This act of total surrender is not merely a fantastic intellectual and mystical gamble; it is something much more serious. It is an act of love for this unseen person, who, in the very gift of love by which we surrender ourselves to his reality also makes his presence known to us.

Thomas Merton

#35. Thich Nhat Hanh has the ability to bring forth the state of peace that we each inherently posses merely by his presence in a room-this is divine power.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#36. 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

#37. No, the Lord doesn't really need us to take care of the poor, but we need this experience; for it is only through our learning how to take care of each other that we develop within us the Christlike love and disposition necessary to qualify us to return to his presence.

Marion G. Romney

#38. It's like my mind knows to stay as far away from him as possible ... but my bones, my skin quiver in his presence.

David Estes

#39. The absence of Jesus is the mode of his presence.

James Carroll

#40. We are daughters of our Heavenly Father. We are covenant-making women of all ages walking the path of mortality back to His presence. Keeping covenants protects us, prepares us, and empowers us.

Rosemary M. Wixom

#41. When we have accepted Jesus Christ, we have become akin to the Father; having become real children of God, we then have the spirit of sonship by which we can come into His presence and make known our wants in a familiar way.

A.C. Dixon

#42. When God sends no answer and "the cloud remain[s]," we must wait. Yet we can do so with the full assurance of God's provision of manna, water from the rock, shelter, and protection from our enemies. He never keeps us at our post without assuring us of His presence or sending us daily supplies.

Lettie B. Cowman

#43. The soul's true greatness is in loving God and in humbling oneself in His presence, completely forgetting oneself and believing oneself to be nothing; because the Lord is great, but He is well-pleased only with the humble; He always opposes the proud.

Mary Faustina Kowalska

#44. his mother, who had never been able to manage him, sent him to school to get rid of him, lamented his absence till he returned, then writhed and fretted under his presence until again he went.

George MacDonald

#45. 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

#46. Really, Miss Catherine, how can I know?' I replied. 'To be sure, considering the exhibition you performed in his presence this afternoon, I might say it would be wise to refuse him: since he asked you after that, he must either be hopelessly stupid or a venturesome fool.

Emily Bronte

#47. A man enrich his community. A man teach and display leadership qualities for his children. A man by his presence is safety and security for his Queen. The best the thing a man can do for this world, his children and Queen is be a man.

Carlos Wallace

#48. Soaking" seems like a crazy word in an intimacy book. Yet that is exactly what you want to do in your relational time with Him, you want to "soak in and soak up" His presence, "soak in and soak up" His love.

Linda Boone

#49. Safety was one thing, but what he really wanted was to be electrified, to be wounded, to be cast into the wilderness, to be released, to be exalted, and most especially to be surrounded by the drowning noise and ebullience and casual presence of friends calling out his name, demanding his presence.

Carol Shields

#50. A quiet but indomitable voice behind me said, "I believe this is my dance." It was him. I could feel his presence. The warmth of him seeped into my back, and I quivered all over like spring leaves in a warm breeze.

Colleen Houck

#51. I feel as though I'm not breathing when I'm out of his presence. He's the oxygen in my air, the sun in my universe, the staff of my life.
- Jane Gardiner

Madeleine L'Engle

#52. The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone ...

Arthur Miller

#53. The Father of Glory (Ephesians 1:17), sent the Lord of Glory to lift up the man who had been crowned with the Glory, but had fallen from the Glory, back into the Glory of His Presence.

Brim Billye

#54. I do not believe it is possible to exaggerate what she has been in the way of a Sacrament out here - God conveying His presence through the common elements of an ordinary life.

Oswald Chambers

#55. It is very true that I have said that I considered Napoleon's presence in the field equal to forty thousand men in the balance. This is a very loose way of talking; but the idea is a very different one from that of his presence at a battle being equal to a reinforcement of forty thousand men.

Duke Of Wellington

#56. Children, meditation is not just sitting with our eyes closed. We should take every action as worship. We should be able to experience His presence everywhere.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#57. The God we serve will make His presence known, when you praise

Fred Hammond

#58. 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

#59. God maintains a delicate balance between keeping his existence sufficiently evident so people will know he's there and yet hiding his presence enough so that people who want to choose to ignore him can do it. This way, their choice of destiny is really free.

J.P. Moreland

#60. As for our great King, when we venture into His presence, let us have a purpose there. Let us beware of playing at praying; it is insolence toward God.

Charles Spurgeon

#61. A colourist makes his presence known even in a simple charcoal drawing.

Henri Matisse

#62. He chuckled. "He'd be outside. You wouldn't even know he was there." "I would too," I complained. "I'd sense his presence.

Kiera Cass

#63. God made us thinking beings, and he guides our minds as we think things out in his presence.

J.I. Packer

#64. Our lives must be spent seeking our God, for God hides; but His artifices, once they be known, seem so simple and smiling! From that moment, the merest nothing reveals His presence, and the greatness of our life depends on so little.

Maurice Maeterlinck

#65. We stand there, knee deep in the water, holding hands. The silence is thunderous with words we don't speak. I feel his presence beside me like it's an extension of my own body, tall and strong and so, so beautiful. But I can't look at him. Right now, it hurts too damn much.

Nicole Christie

#66. His presence made me feel self-concious: of my appearance, of the way I was sitting, of my movements and gestures ... It was the behavior of a woman reacting to a man who attracts her.

Alice Steinbach

#67. If Christ be your one and only love, if your heart has cast out all rivals, you will not long lack the comfort of His presence.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#68. Repentance prepares the way and makes the road of our hearts straight. Repentance builds up every low place and takes down every high place in our lives and church families. Repentance prepares us for His presence.

Tommy Tenney

#69. I must first have the sense of God's possession of me before I can have the sense of His presence with me.

Watchman Nee

#70. God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us;

Charlotte Bronte

#71. PSALM 100 p Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth! 2 q Serve the LORD with gladness! r Come into his presence with singing!

Anonymous

#72. God Chasers are people whose passion for being in His presence press them to chase the impossible in hopes that the uncatchable might catch them!

Tommy Tenney

#73. His touch fucked with my ability to concentrate even more than his presence already had. My lower belly was in a state of what-the-fuck-are-you-doing? My skin was in a state of "holy fucking hell let him touch every part of you" and my vagina had pulled out the fucking welcome mat.

Nina Levine

#74. Ordinances and covenants become our credentials for admission into His presence. To worthily receive them is the quest of a lifetime; to keep them thereafter is the challenge of mortality.

Boyd K. Packer

#75. The door opened, held by the butler, and Lord Montagu swept into the room, his presence overwhelming the space. She could swear even the flowers in their vases perked up and listed in his direction. Honest to Pete.

Angela Quarles

#76. He destabilized every ounce of her being with his presence alone.

April Vine

#77. Just as order gave life and beauty to the earth when it was dark and void, so it does to us. Obedience helps us develop the full potential Heavenly Father desires for us in becoming celestial beings worthy some day to live in His presence.

James E. Faust

#78. I was absolutely a non-starter at games. My report for rugby said, 'Nigel's chief contribution is his presence on the field.' I used to pray for rain and sometimes it did rain - and we played anyway.

Nigel Rees

#79. We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.

Charlotte Bronte

#80. I have experienced His presence in the deepest hell that man can create. I have really tested the promises of the Bible, and believe me, you can count on them.

Corrie Ten Boom

#81. You buy and sell your way into His presence for more money, as if that makes any difference to Him. You fight and kill each other over who knows Him best. It's an unending farce. And yet, He forgives you. He loves you.

David W. Moore III

#82. God is near whether you sense His presence or not.

Max Lucado

#83. Teddy was feeling as miserable and impotently angry as any male creature does when two women are quarreling about him in his presence. He wished himself a thousand miles away.

L.M. Montgomery

#84. Someone has said that Satan knows nothing of true pleasure and satisfaction, that he is an expert only in amusements. David had learned the difference, and we would do well to imitate him. True pleasure comes from knowing God, being known by God, and being at rest in His presence.

David Jeremiah

#85. One can become so sentimental about a person's absence, but it's impossible to be consistently sentimental in his presence - when you're confronted with the quotidian selfishness and silence that, I'm given to understand, comprise most of a life. But we were just so new.

Jennifer DuBois

#86. 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

#87. Nothing felt better to him than the act of waiting for her. As long as he believed it wasn't in vain, he was able to justify his presence.

Roy L. Pickering Jr.

#88. Dixon was not unconscious of this awed reverence which was given to her; nor did she dislike it; it flattered her as much as Louis the Fourteenth was flattered by his courtiers shading their eyes from the dazzling light of his presence.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#89. It is the heart that is not sure of its God that is afraid to laugh in His presence.

George MacDonald

#90. We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity.

David Lloyd-Jones

#91. An important step in getting to know God is to realize how available he is to us. In learning to hear God, it helps us to take on faith the fact that we are already in his presence. If we must make ourselves worthy of his presence first, we will never get there.

Craig S. Keener

#92. A sense of Jesus' absence might be a sign of his presence- a sign that he's working already in your life.

Timothy Keller

#93. Our Savior invites us on a daily basis to cleanse our names and return to His presence. His encouragement is full of love and tenderness. Envision with me the Savior's embrace as I read His words: Will ye not now return unto me, and repent of your sins, and be converted, that I may heal you?

Mervyn B. Arnold

#94. Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.

Barry Gibb

#95. She had never felt such excitement, such awareness of life around her, as if the very air was charged with his presence.

Karen Ranney

#96. Prepare now for the temple, the mountain of the Lord. Never allow the goal of the temple to be out of your sight. Walk into His presence in purity and virtue, and receive His blessings - even 'all that he hath.'

Elaine S. Dalton

#97. Time had passed, yet her heart held onto him. She did not draw breath without thinking of him. She did not dream without feeling his presence at her side. His voice, in memory, was sweeter than any she'd heard. And she did not want to be without him.

Sasha Summers

#98. Having your spiritual radar up in constant anticipation of His presence- even in the midst of the joyful chaos and regular rhythms of your everyday living- is paramount in hearing God, because sometimes the place and manner you find Him is the least spectacular you'd expect.

Priscilla Shirer

#99. Let us never tire, therefore, of seeking the Lord - of letting ourselves be sought by him - of tending over our relationship with him in silence and prayerful listening. Let us keep our gaze fixed on him, the center of time and history; let us make room for his presence within us.

Pope Francis

#100. What distinguishes a great player is his presence. When he goes on to the court, his presence dominates the atmosphere.

Bill Russell