#presence

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness. ↗

— Margaret Millar

#delivered #monologues #most #presence #simply

The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important than 30 libraries. ↗

— Art Modell

#football #football team #important #libraries #more

When I paint, I seriously consider the public presence of a person - the surface facade. I am less concerned with how people look when they wake up or how they act at home. A person's public presence reflects his own efforts at image development. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#am #concerned #consider #development #efforts

I love cities that are on the water. I love the water element, specifically the sea. I grew up on the sea and I grew up sailing - I love sailing - and the presence of the sea gives the air and the light a very special quality that I absolutely adore. ↗

— Connie Nielsen

#adore #air #cities #element #gives

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#completely #even #others #presence

Divinity for the sake of the simple-minded is beautiful. Those theological assertions you write, say, or live by that you later feel foolish about, it means God still lives in you enough to tell you that they were indeed foolish. By mistakes you know you are alive. ↗

— Criss Jami

#assertions #beautiful #correction #divinity #foolish

There is no good singing, there is only present and absent. ↗

— Jeff Buckley

#music #presence #voice #music

In a time so filled with methods and techniques designed to change people, to influence their behavior, and to make them do new things and think new thoughts, we have lost the simple but difficult gift of being present to each other. (p. 11-12) ↗

— Henri J. M. Nouwen Donald P. McNeill Douglas A. Morrison

#presence #change

We should fix ourselves firmly in the presence of God by conversing all the time with Him...we should feed our soul with a lofty conception of God and from that derive great joy in being his. We should put life in our faith. We should give ourselves utterly to God in pure abandonment, in temporal and spiritual matters alike, and find contentment in the doing of His will,whether he takes us through sufferings or consolations. ↗

— Brother Lawrence

#god #practicing-the-presence-of-god #faith

If you have never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it - I mean really asked, expecting an answer. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#christianity #god-s-love #god-s-presence #love