#presence

God is a presence that I can never define but I could never deny. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#define #deny #god #i #i can

My brother and Lauren are very close with me and they are in Sun Valley, so sometimes I need to go there and feel their presence. And there are times I need to see my bro' alone. ↗

— Picabo Street

#bro #brother #close #feel #go

With the establishment of a presence in all three counties of Delaware, recruitment in and outside Delaware and throughout the world and new master's and doctoral programs, Delaware State University will continue to grow and attract even more qualified students. ↗

— Michael N. Castle

#continue #counties #delaware #delaware state #delaware state university

I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence. ↗

— Garry Trudeau

#develop #i #lifestyle #presence #require

A falling star fell from your heart and landed in my eyes. I screamed aloud, as it tore through them, and now it's left me blind. The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out. You left me in the dark. No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight. In the shadow of your heart. And in the dark, I can hear your heartbeat. I tried to find the sound. But then it stopped, and I was in the darkness, So darkness I became. I took the stars from my eyes, and then I made a map. And knew that somehow I could find my way back. Then I heard your heart beating, you were in the darkness too. So I stayed in the darkness with you. ↗

— Florence Welch

#being #cosmic-love #florence-the-machine #love #now

The future belongs to the one most fully alive in the present. ↗

— Paul Palnik

#god #presence #inspirational

Let us think often that our only business in this life is to please God. Perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity. ↗

— Brother Lawrence

#practice-presence-of-god #business

Your true home is in the here and the now. ↗

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

#presence #zen

When we pray, instead of trying to produce love in our souls toward God, we should be basking in God's love for us. How foolish to stay indoors in the cold, dark little room off the self, trying to turn on the light and turn up the heat, when we can just go outside into God's glorious Sonlight and receive his rays! How silly to fuss with artificial tanning salons and lotions and lights when the Son is out! ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#prayer #presence #sonlight #love

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

#bestowed #created #faculties #god #him