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Should I worship Him from fear of hell, may I be cast into it. Should I serve Him from desire of gaining heaven, may He keep me out. But should I worship Him from love alone, He reveals Himself to me, that my whole heart may be filled with His love and presence. -- Sadhu Sundar Singh
God's presence is not just Light, and Life, but Love. And Love invites, but does not compel. -- Frederica Mathewes-Green
Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence. -- David Byrne
There are days when my heart is troubled, and just being in the Lord's presence and thinking about His love for me fills my heart with inexplicable peace and joy. -- Joseph Prince
We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work. -- Saint Francis de Sales
It was the Lord's love and my recognition of His presence in my life that made me realize how important it was to give Him the glory and be there for Him. -- Tony Orlando
I love to sit and eat quietly and enjoy each bite, aware of the presence of my community, aware of all the hard and loving work that has gone into my food. -- Nhat Hanh
My prayer became 'May I find peace... May I love this life no matter what.' I was seeking an inner refuge, an experience of presence and wholeness that could carry me through whatever losses might come. -- Tara Brach
Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence. -- David Seabury
There are so many young women coming up through the ranks. Adele is an amazing singer. Beyonce has great stage presence. She's just a beautiful woman. I love how everyone has just taken charge of their lives and careers. -- Pat Benatar
In contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be infinitely worth living and opens the way to eternal life in fellowship with God Who so loved the world that He gave Himself in Christ. -- Kenneth Scott Latourette
I love a song that will usher in the very presence of God. Then there's no Andrae; there's no fabulous band, there's no greatness of ours. I've had hundreds of concerts like that, and that's what I try to achieve. -- Andrae Crouch
On the intimate level, anyone who has loved a companion animal knows the uniquely wonderful experience these 'other nations' provide, and their important presence in our shared lives. In their very local way they show us the global truth of our real wealth, our biodiversity. -- April Gornik
Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others, like loneliness. We eat specific foods to enjoy their fleeting presence on our tongues. We read for the pleasure of thinking another person's thoughts. -- Sam Harris
All my day is spent dealing with other people. When I come home I like it to be empty. The presence of others in my house kind of annoys me. I love coming home and shutting the doors. I feel brain dead. I'm relatively available, but not to live with. -- Graham Norton
I love cities that are on the water. I love the water element, specifically the sea. I grew up on the sea and I grew up sailing - I love sailing - and the presence of the sea gives the air and the light a very special quality that I absolutely adore. -- Connie Nielsen
It's so easy to get whisked away in the hubbub of friends, work and busy-ness, but we need to take the time to be still and become aware of ourselves. The small things. The fact that we're still breathing. Our ability to move. The presence of love around and in us. Our strengths. Our opportunities. Our journeys. -- Grace Gealey
Love means that everything is right with the world. Love and only love. Love means that you are content within your own heart and in the presence of the person that you love, who fills your day and makes you stronger and wiser, and gives you the confidence to go out into the world. Love is just the most beautiful, joyous feeling. -- Pierce Brosnan
Men invent means and methods of coming at God's love, they learn rules and set up devices to remind them of that love, and it seems like a world of trouble to bring oneself into the consciousness of God's presence. Yet it might be so simple. Is it not quicker and easier just to do our common business wholly for the love of him? -- Brother Lawrence
Mr. Balanchine was a great gentleman, and he loved his dancers. He was devoted to his company. He came to the ballet every night, and his presence was felt. It was like the whole company was dancing for him. And if he liked you, he trusted you to be yourself. He didn't try to change you and make you into something you were not. -- Patricia McBride
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. -- Thomas Fuller
Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it. -- Thomas Overbury
The presence of real love in the world inspires me. -- Krishna Das
In the presence of love, hearth and quest become one. -- Jeanette Winterson
There is no way into Presence except through a love exchange. -- Rumi
When you love someone, the best you can offer is your presence. -- Nhat Hanh
God love to be with us. We must daily seek His presence. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
True love is a lack of desire to check one's smartphone in another's presence. -- Alain de Botton
The presence of a king engenders love Amongst his subjects, and his royal friends. -- William Shakespeare
Grace is the offer of God's ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped. -- John Ortberg
Staying present, living in Presence is the best gift anyone can give to those they love. -- Guy Finley
In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Share your presence with others, no boundaries, completely, openly, lovingly. Love is what makes us alive. -- Alex Grey
The presence of many does not and cannot replace the absence of one. That is love. -- Rita Zahara
The greatest influence you can have in any situation is to be the presence of love. -- Robert Holden
How great love is, presence best trial makes, But absence tries how long this love will be. -- John Donne
Intent on one great love, perfect, Requited and for ever, I missed love's everywhere Small presence, thousand-guised. -- Kathleen Raine
Women tend to love men in their presence, while men tend to love women in their absence. -- Sherry Argov
Light is to darkness what love is to fear; in the presence of one the other disappears. -- Marianne Williamson
To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice. -- Andre Malraux
Waiting does not exist in the experience of those who recognize the presence of love wherever they are. -- Alan Cohen
There is no greater power than the power of love, which arises from Presence. It overcomes all resistance. -- Leonard Jacobson
Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear. -- William Shakespeare
Solitude is a courageous encounter with our naked, most raw and real self, in the presence of pure love. -- Richard Rohr
Love the things you love as best as you can love them in the time you have in their presence. -- Eric Lange
If there isn't an emanation of love and joy, complete presence and openness toward all beings, then it is not enlightenment. -- Eckhart Tolle
All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies. -- Anne Carson
The darkness is the deepening shadow of your presence; the silence a process in the metabolism of the being of love . -- R. S. Thomas
When you hear that your neighbor or friend has reproached you in your absence or presence, then show love and praise him. -- John Climacus
Love is not only blind, but a fool, a stumbling mess falling backwards through showroom doors into atmospheres unwelcoming of his presence. -- Alex Gaskarth
Most mothers think that to keep young people away from love-making it is enough never to speak of it in their presence. -- Madame de La Fayette
When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there? -- Nhat Hanh
I always like to be in the presence of people who are good at and love their jobs, Irrespective of their jobs. -- Geoff Dyer
When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there? -- Nhat Hanh
Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light new light in the hearts of people. -- Mother Teresa
I always felt awkward and unfinished, unworthy of love, suspicious of affection offered. My mother's absence became a great presence in my life. -- Marilyn Sewell
Lord, how great is our dilemma! In Thy Presence silence best becomes us, yet love inflames our hearts and constrains us to speak. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Whether we learn how to love ourselves and others will depend on the presence of a loving environment. Self-love cannot flourish in isolation. -- bell hooks
Whether you love God or you love a human being, if you love enough you will come into the presence of Love itself. -- Rumi
Joy has come to live with me. How can I be sad? I do so love Thy presence, which is joy within me. -- Ernest Holmes
The most powerful healing arises from the simple intention to love the life within you, unconditionally, with as much tenderness and presence as possible. -- Tara Brach
The miracle of love comes to you in the presence of the uninterpreted moment. If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life. -- Byron Katie
dogs love us unconditionally and cats are big on redemption. Our sins and shortcomings don't bother them as long as we delight in their presence. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
Think about the change that the world experiences without the aid of the right people and those who love and appreciate the presence of nature. -- Auliq Ice
Stop the mental chatter about what's wrong and what's not complete. There is a presence of Love that is seeking to express itself through you. -- Michael Beckwith
The person who makes all cares into one care the care for simply staying present will be cared for by that presence which is creative love. -- Kabir Helminski
This is love, she thought, isn't it? When you notice someone's absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence? -- Jonathan Safran Foer
Love, indeed, lends a precious seeing to the eye, and hearing to the ear: all sights and sounds are glorified by the light of its presence. -- Arthur Frederick Saunders
Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love. -- Walter Savage Landor
Christmas: the Son of God expressing the love of God to save us from the wrath of God so we could enjoy the presence of God. -- John Piper
The one thing you absolutely need is the one thing you can never lose: God's presence and love for you. Just have to talk to him. -- Keke Palmer
Don't assume that money, shelter and creature comforts are enough to demonstrate your love. Nothing can replace your presence, your hug, your smile, your touch - you! -- Denis Waitley
In Samadhi, that very deep state of meditation, you are given energy and long-lasting bliss. It carries you higher and higher until your very presence radiates love -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Only those who love color are admitted to its beauty and immanent presence. It affords utility to all, but unveils its deeper mysteries only to its devotees. -- Johannes Itten
If you meet a girl in whose presence you feel a desire "¦ to do your best, "¦ such a young woman is worthy of your love -- Henry B. Eyring
In the presence of their love I sensed my lonliness, and I understood for a moment, clearly, that deep and basic human desire for companionship at depth. -- Luke Davies
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I saw Herschel and he saw me and we stood next to each other because that is what friends do in the presence of evil or love. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
I feel like I am alone when I am in the presence of those I love. It is so freeing and comfortable, you become one with them. -- Zola Jesus
The voice of an Angel, the Heart of a Lamb, the spirit of a Lioness, the presence of a Goddess, love you R.I.P Whitney Houston. -- Wyclef Jean
A servant wants to be rewarded for what he does. A lover wants only to be in love's presence, that ocean whose depth will never be known. -- Rumi
As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death. -- Anna Brownell Jameson
Peace does not mean the absence of war, peace means the presence of harmony, love, satisfaction and oneness. Peace means a flood of love in the world family. -- Sri Chinmoy
Like a tenacious ivy, your presence clings onto the drab wall of my existence. Cling harder onto me love, like a blood sucking bed-bug who is never satiated. -- Malak El Halabi
When you have the power to love, that strength, that courage is infinite; that love is infinite. There is nothing finite about it's presence, for love. never. dies. -- Solange nicole
Love is a funny thing, isn't it? The presence of it can bring you to save a foe, the absence of it can make you hurt your own flesh. -- Stefanie Schneider
When you rest in presence and pure awareness, sometimes everything is experienced as love because you're connected with all that is, and love is simply the nature of being. -- Jack Kornfield
Presence is to meet another person in meditation. Presence is to invite another person in meditation. It is a meeting in love, joy, acceptance, sincerity, truth, silence and oneness. -- Swami Dhyan Giten

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