#sence

There’s a reason they call God a presence- because God is right here, right now. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#presence-of-god #love

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

Your body is away from me, but there is a window open from my heart to yours. ↗

— Rumi

#love #love

There are in this world human beings in solitary places who have answered the Lord's call to make of their lives a little flame, always bright, always attentive to His Presence. ↗

— Conrad De Meester

#practice-god-s-presence #inspirational

Think of the jazz improv artist responding to the musical banter among her fellow players onstage. Aside from whatever training they've done in advance, as soon as the curtain opens, they move into unknown territory together, creating something new each time by remaining in a state of undivided presence. ↗

— Donna Quesada

#wisdom #zen #inspirational

Feel your emotions, Live true your passions, Keep still your mind. ↗

— Geoffrey M. Gluckman

#ineffable #inspirational #living #loving #passion

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself. ↗

— Jane Addams

#exception #immorality #make #myself #tendency

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface. ↗

— Constantin Brancusi

#anything #essence #essentially #express #exterior

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence. ↗

— Philip James Bailey

#cold #excellence #highest #intellectual #mark

In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex. ↗

— Marguerite Gardiner

#attention #claims #does #expose #forget