Best Presence Proverbs
2434 Presence quotes by 1568 unique authors
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While we teach knowledge, we are losing that teaching which is the most important one for human development: the teaching which can only be given…
— Erich Fromm
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It is not enough to be a member of the Church of Christ, one needs to be a living member, in spirit and in truth,…
— Pope Pius XI
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They sensed that what had happened around them and in their presence, and in them, was irrevocable. Never again could it be cleansed; it would…
— Primo Levi
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If we are practicing our faith and seeking the companionship of the Holy Spirit, his presence can be felt in our hearts and in our…
— Dallin H. Oaks
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The grace of the spirit comes only from heaven, and lights up the whole bodily presence.
— Charles Spurgeon
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I need thy presence every passing hour; What but thy grace can foil the tempter's power?
— Henry Francis Lyte
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Grace ceases to be grace if God is compelled to bestow it in the presence of human merit.
— Sam Storms
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Everything we call a trial, a sorrow or a duty, believe me, that angel's hand is there, the gift is there, and the wonder of…
— Giovanni Giocondo
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There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you....As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates…
— Nelson Mandela
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Faith is not a light which scatters all our darkness, but a lamp which guides our steps in the night and suffices for the journey.…
— Pope Francis
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God must be allowed the right to speak unpredictably.... We must find him in our enemy, or we may lose him even in our friend.…
— Thomas Merton
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A Christian knows when it is time to speak of God and when it is better to say nothing and to let love alone speak.…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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We are united to Him, we are one, and it is when His Passion becomes real to us, through experience and love, that we grow…
— Caryll Houselander
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Believers know that the presence of evil is always accompanied by the presence of good, by grace... Where evil grows, there the hope for good…
— Pope John Paul II
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One solitary God-centered, God-intoxicated man can do more to keep God's love alive and His presence felt in the world than a thousand half-hearted, talkative…
— Robert McNamara
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For just as some people want a purely spiritual Christ, without flesh and without the cross, they also want their interpersonal relationships provided by sophisticated…
— Pope Francis
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Your presence in this house is almost as painful and enormous as your absence.
— Donald Hall
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We are in the presence of a new organization of society. Our life has broken away from the past.
— Woodrow Wilson
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Nothing could add to the horror of hell, except the presence of its creator, God. While I have life, as long as I draw breath,…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not…
— Seneca the Younger
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People tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing to remember. Writers…
— Joan Didion
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Since I was introduced to the practice of God's presence, which in turn led me into the contemplative way, I have nearly always felt so…
— Brian D. McLaren
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It is the heart that is not sure of its God that is afraid to laugh in His presence.
— George MacDonald
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The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study…
— Nicolas Chamfort
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We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organ of its activity. When we discern justice, when…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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