Presence Quotes
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I suppose maybe if I had been an attractive child, I would have had less inclination to push my physical presence.
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Just because you play bass, doesn't mean you have no presence.
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The existence of a world without God seems to me less absurd than the presence of a God, existing in all of his perfection, creating imperfect man in order to make him run the risk of Hell.
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Our focus is to continue to pioneer branded entertainment online and consider opportunities as they come. We're smart enough to know that we can't bite the hand that feeds us and neglect our Internet presence.
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We may be confident in this: that in the pain of our suffering is the presence of a faithful God.
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Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got a kind of presence.
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Wanting so mostly rarely withstands the presence of the thing we want.
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How important can it be that I suffer and think? My presence in this world will disturb a few tranquil lives and will unsettle the unconscious and pleasant naiveté of others. Although I feel that my tragedy is the greatest in history - greater than the fall of empires - I am nevertheless aware of my total insignificance. I am absolutely persuaded that I am nothing in this universe; yet I feel that mine is the only real existence.
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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Best of all, Christmas means a spirit of love, a time when the love of God and the love of our fellow men should prevail over all hatred and bitterness, a time when our thoughts and deeds and the spirit of our lives manifest the presence of God.
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Nothing was, nothing will be, everything has reality and presence.
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Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.
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I've played a lot of younger, more coming-of-age roles as well as roles that aren't such an imposing physical presence.
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The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life.
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Love the things you love as best as you can love them in the time you have in their presence.
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Instantly available without continuous presence is probably the best role a mother can play.
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The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.
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What prompts you and me to keep going through the hard times of life? God’s presence. Nothing more and nothing less. Nothing else.
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In their presence, there's no need for continuous conversation, but you find you're quite content in just having them nearby.
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No one forgets the presence of the camera, no matter how long it's there.
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As with all journeys, the Way has an end, though it should not be imagined as a straight road leading to a fixed destination but rather as a majestic mountain whose peak conceals the presence of God. There are, of course, many paths to the summit-some better than others. But because every path eventually leads to the same destination, which path one takes is irrelevant.
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Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting.
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Worse than knowing I needed out, I didn't know what I needed back into. Even when I could feel there was something else beyond the edges of any color in the street or window where no one waited even to just totally ignore me, I couldn't recognize it enough to know how to want it harder. Along each street it was as if I were waiting for some hole to swallow my face. Each moment it didn't made the going into the next step that much less worth doing. This is what life had always felt like. In my mind, expecting the absence of something or someone there before me made the presence in its place feel like the punch line to a routine no one was performing. And where I couldn't find a way to laugh, I became my own stand-in, over and over, like painting white over a window from the inside.
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Sometimes the very presence of God is barred by our presuppositions and our intense and constant desire for triumph.
