“We cannot attain the presence of God because we’re already totally in the presence of God. What’s absent is awareness” — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The grandest discourse ever delivered is an ostentatious failure if the doctrine of the grace of God be absent from it. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“God is never absent from the affairs of men, though we are not conscious of Him very often.” — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
We dare not think that God is absent or daydreaming. The do nothing God...He's not tucked away in some far corner of… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
St. Teresa of Avila wrote: 'All difficulties in prayer can be traced to one cause: praying as if God were absent.' This… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
“There are people, moreover, for whom even the absence of God is absent, who are shaken not by the privation of providence… — Zvi Kolitz Copy Share Image
The modern world lies under a pervasive sense of anguish, of being abandoned, or at least experiencing God as absent. Yet events… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
Look at the animals roaming the forest: God’s spirit dwells within them. Look at the birds flying across the sky: God’s spirit… — Pelagius Copy Share Image
“Religious despair is often a defense against boredom and the daily grind of existence. Lacking intensity in our lives, we say that… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
