Top 100 The Presence Quotes
#1. She could be quite brave in the presence of a Wyverary, but tall and lovely ladies made her shy, even if they were made of soap.
Catherynne M Valente
#2. I felt the depth of my loss in the presence of emptiness, which was amplified when I allowed myself to be starved.
Truth Devour
#3. Some say that to believe in destiny is to dismiss the role of free will. That self-determination cannot prevail in the presence of fate. When the truth is, the only part of destiny we can control is the fate we choose for another.
Emily Thorne
#4. 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
#5. When you find inner peace, neither the presence nor absence of any person, place or thing, condition, circumstance, or situation can be the Creator of your state of mind or the cause of your experience of being.
Neale Donald Walsch
#6. In a city, with all of its enclaves and boundaries, both real and imagined, it is impossible not to feel the presence of those who are not like you and impossible not to feel like an outsider.
Kate Milford
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. The presence of God is the finest of rewards.
Yann Martel
#10. The story seems to begin with catastrophe but in fact began earlier and is not a tragedy but rather a love story. Perhaps tragedies are only tragedies in the presence of love, which confers meaning to loss. Loss is not felt in the absence of love.
Elizabeth Alexander
#11. Speak the truth.
Give whatever you can.
Never be angry.
These three steps will lead you
Into the presence of the gods.
Gautama Buddha
#12. On land off an ice covered sea the traveler can, for example, detect the presence of open water, simply because it reflects less light than land or ice. The open sea's telltale sign is thus a darkness on the underside of the clouds.
Harold Gatty
#13. There is something about the presence of a cat ... that seems to take the bite out of being alone.
Louis J. Camuti
#14. God's kingdom is coming in and through the work of Jesus, not by taking people away from this world but by transforming things within this world, bringing the sphere of earth into the presence, and under the rule, of heaven itself.
N. T. Wright
#15. I can go on the road - because I can come home. I come home - because I'm free to leave. Each way of being is more valued in the presence of the other.
Gloria Steinem
#16. When you are in the presence of unconditional love, that is the optimum environment for your heart to open, because you feel safe, because you realize nobody wants anything from you. The minute that heart opens, you are once again letting in the flow. And that flow is where you experience God.
Ram Dass
#17. Many people believe that evil is the presence of something. I think it's the absence of something.
Lisa Unger
#18. It is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed.
Lemony Snicket
#19. True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.
Jane Addams
#20. 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
#21. Success as a Christian is to become the essence of the presence of God on earth
Sunday Adelaja
#22. 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
#23. I feel comfortable in the presence of oddity. Probably because I'm a little bit odd.
Martha Plimpton
#24. But the presence of the young woman had touched a lot of people there, and some were ready to rethink their lives.
Paulo Coelho
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. The presence of passion, faith, and belief in our hearts is a gift. It's on loan to our souls.
Priscilla Shirer
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice.
Harrison Ford
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 7 Leave the presence of a fool, for there you do not meet words of knowledge.
Anonymous
#36. 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
#37. Attachment to the false view of self means belief in the presence of unchanging entities which exist on their own. To break through this false view is to be liberated from every sort of fear, pain, and anxiety.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#38. Man is the ultimate tragic being, because he has learned enough about the Earth to realise the Earth would be better off without the presence of humankind.
Peter Wessel Zapffe
#40. You p prepare a table before me in q the presence of my enemies; you r anoint my head with oil; my s cup overflows. 6 Surely [4] goodness and mercy [5] shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall t dwell [6] in the house of the LORD u forever.
Anonymous
#41. 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
#42. Deep in my heart how the presence of you shines, in a light to last a whole life through.
Patti Smith
#43. The practice of the Christian life consists of the discernment of (the seeing and hearing), and the reliance upon (the reckless and uncalculating dependence), and the celebration (the ready and spontaneous enjoyment) of the presence of the Word of God in the common life of the world.
William Stringfellow
#44. God is in the best, and also the worst. God is in the presence, and also in the absence. God is in the power, and also in the powerlessness.
Rob Bell
#45. No matter how tough you've been trying to act lately, I know that deep down you have a heart that bleeds in the presence of injustice.
Colleen Hoover
#46. Don't look for "depth" but instead search for subject aspects which prove the presence of depth.
Andreas Feininger
#47. When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you'll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.
Wayne Dyer
#48. According to Aristotle, envy is pain for the presence of good things in others, whereas emulation is pain for their absence in us. This is a subtle but critical difference. Unlike envy, which is self-defeating, emulation is a good thing because it makes us take steps towards securing good things.
Neel Burton
#49. God has a celebration meal with us not after we finally get out of the dark valley but in the middle of it, in the presence of our enemies. He wants us to rejoice in him in the midst of our troubles.
Timothy Keller
#50. Poetry for me is a result of lyrical meditation, pre-verbal in origin, and much of the craft has to do with finding a contemporary diction that embodies, at times subverts but never betrays that pre-verbal lyrical source: the presence of song before it is sung.
John Allison
#51. Observe the silence between your thoughts, actions, reactions, and you will feel the presence of spirit in the stillness of those spaces.
Deepak Chopra
#52. Swaraj means, a state such that we can maintain our separate existence without the presence of the English.
Mahatma Gandhi
#53. The psychedelic experience is not a journey into the human unconscious, or into the ghost bards of our human civilization. It's a journey into the presence of the Gaian mind.
Terence McKenna
#54. When I walk into an Orthodox Church ... one is immediately aware that one has stepped into the presence of what St. Paul would call the whole family in heaven and earth. You have stepped into the precincts of heaven!
Thomas Howard
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. Everything is touched by the holy when it is in the presence of death.
Karl Marlantes
#65. We cannot enter into the presence of God while we are rebelling against God.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#66. 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
#67. The presence of a path doesn't necessarily mean the existence of a destination.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. In the Presence of Love ... there are Miracles ... Live Love, Give Love and Miracle will follow Miracle and wonders will never cease.
Deborah Brooks
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. Through Jesus we don't need perfect righteousness, just repentant helplessness, to access the presence of God.
Timothy Keller
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. Our judgement is that the presence of the Royal Marines garrison is sufficient deterrent against any possible aggression.
Margaret Thatcher
#86. 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
#87. When I was a deacon, my father took me and my older brother to general priesthood meeting in the Tabernacle. I remember how thrilled I was to be in the presence, for the first time, of the prophet of God, President Heber J. Grant, and the other prophets and apostles.
James E. Faust
#88. Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels.
Fran Drescher
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. The glory of God in our lives is the experience and expression of the presence of God
Patrick Oben
#93. 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
#94. The presence of the policeman around the corner is the only thing that keeps us civilised.
Paul Russell
#95. The presence is not deleted before the vacuum is cleared before a redoubling of presence that erases the opposition of the presence and absence
Jean Baudrillard
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. [...] the primal, animal sense of 'the other,' which may have evolved for the detection of threat, can take on a lofty, even transcendent function in human beings, as a biological basis for religious passion and conviction, where the 'other,' the 'presence,' becomes the person of God.
Oliver Sacks
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