God Presence Quotes

We live in a spiritual Universe. God is in, through, around and for us.

What children we are, even the wisest! When God walks the earth, his steps are often centuries apart.

Rarely do we realize that we are in the midst of the extraordinary. Miracles occur all around us, signs from God show us the way, angels plead to be heard, but we pay little attention to them because we have been taught that we must follow certain formulas and rules if we want to find God. We do not realize that God is wherever we allow Him/Her to enter.

Most of the time I ask, "Why have I forsaken God?" I look at myself and ask that question when probably the better question is to say, "Where are you God, and I'll let you in." Instead of thinking that you've abandoned God, push yourself in the other direction like, "God, how can I get closer?"

I try to live in such a way that nothing gets bigger than my awareness of God presence on my life.

Virtually every spiritual tradition teaches that your higher self is the presence of God within you.

The mind is a great gift, but it has to be quieted down in order to feel, hear and see the presence of God.

For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.

Let God be the air in which your heart breathes at ease.

What is the chief end of preaching? I like to think it is this: It is to give men and women a sense of God and His presence.

The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.

Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.

I just want the world to know that God is present, that he's alive for ever more.

Never feel lonely. You are never lonely. At the deepest core of your being, God resides.

One of the most powerful concepts, one which is a sure cure for lack of confidence, is the thought that God is with you and helping you. This is one of the simplest teachings in religion, namely, that Almighty God will be your companion, will stand by you, help you, and see you through. No other idea is so powerful in developing self-confidence as this simple belief when practiced. To practice it simply affirm "God is with me; God is helping me; God is guiding me." Spend several minutes each day visualizing his presence. Then practice believing that affirmation.

What now does the divine immanence mean in direct Christian experience? It means simply that God is here. Wherever we are, God is here. Ther eis no place, there can be no place, where He is not.

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.

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.

Sometimes the very presence of God is barred by our presuppositions and our intense and constant desire for triumph.

Missions then is less about the transportation of God from one place to another and more about the identification of a God who is already there [...] You see God where others don't. And then you point him out. So the issue isn't so much taking Jesus to people who don't have him, but going to a place and pointing out to the people the creative, life-giving God who is already present in their midst.

To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence.

God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. Insofar as man partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine, of God, and that participation is his immortality.