#presence

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#conviction #deep #emotional #forms #god

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. ↗

— Epictetus

#best #calls #company #forth #keep

I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue. ↗

— Guillermo del Toro

#dialogue #good #i #like #lot

There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#all night #another #catching #done #hear

Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances. ↗

— Malcolm Wallop

#based #conscience #extremely #finally #important

There is a divine purpose behind everything - and therefore a divine presence in everything. ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#divine #everything #presence #purpose #therefore

Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed. ↗

— Earl Warren

#any #appointed #attorney #does #either

It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person. ↗

— Paul Watzlawick

#any #avoid #behavior #being #communication

One of the purest souls ever to live on this fallen planet was Nicholas Herman, known as Brother Lawrence. He wrote very little, but what he wrote has seemed to several generations of Christians to be so rare and so beautiful as to deserve a place near the top among the world's great books of devotion. The writings of Brother Lawrence are the ultimate in simplicity; ideas woven like costly threads to make a pattern of great beauty. ↗

— A.W. Tozer

#practice-god-s-presence #simplicity #beauty

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

#all things #caught #center #define #existence