For weeks after 911 you could smell the dust and pulverised concrete in New York, and the National Guard came in, so there was a military presence on the streets. It was intense. Overwhelming. Heartbreaking.
I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be.
In presence, there is no right or wrong, because there is no duality. There is no judgment.
Beware in the presence of cats: they never give, they do not even retaliate--they only reply, and purr in doing so.
A realization of the Presence of God is the most powerful healing agency known to the mind of man.
Whether you love God or you love a human being, if you love enough you will come into the presence of Love itself.
The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement to the thousands and thousands.
All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever.
The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence
Only when we are captured by an overwhelming sense of awe and reverence in the presence of God, will we begin to worship God in spirit and in truth.
The physical presence of other Christians is a source of incomparable joy and strength to the believer.
We are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense.
That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.
Nothing was, nothing will be, everything has reality and presence
Presence always wins out over principles.
Spiritual leadership is the power to change the atmosphere by one's presence, the unconscious influence that makes Christ and spiritual things real to others.
Great leadership isn’t shaped in the absence of opposition but in the presence of it. Great leaders draw us together by our universal humanity; they galvanize the wills of the willing; they draw clarity from the spigot of chaos.
There are three kinds of friends in the world. An ordinary person sees only who you are; for that you don't need a friend. Then there's a friend who sees in you what you can be. And then there's the real holy Friend, and the presence of this Friend you are already.
it is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed.
That man is always happy who is in the presence of something which he cannot know to the full, which he is always going on to know.