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God's Presence: Quotations from Burning Words

Life should be a constant vision of God's presence. Here is our defense against being led away by the gauds and shows of earth's vulgar attractions.— ALEXANDER MACLAREN

The never-ceasing boom of the great ocean as it breaks on the beach, drowns all smaller sounds.— ALEXANDER MACLAREN

Do we vividly feel that He is near us as our everlasting Friend, to guide, cheer, and bless our aspirations and our efforts? And in this confidence do we watch, pray, strive, press forward, and seek resolutely for ourselves and fellow-beings the highest end of existence, even the perfection of our immortal souls?— W. E. CHANNING

He who knows what it is to enjoy God will dread His loss; he who has seen His face will fear to see His back. -— RICHARD ALLEINE

I know that as night and shadows are good for flowers, and moonlight and dews are better than a continual sun, so is Christ's absence of special use, and that it hath some nourishing virtue in it, and giveth sap to humility, and putteth an edge on hunger, and furnisheth a fair field for faith to put forth itself.— RUTHERFORD

The vision of the Divine presence ever takes the form which our circumstances most require.— ALEXANDER MACLAREN

As the soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soul. As therefore the body perishes when the soul leaves it, so the soul dies when God departs from it.— ST. AUGUSTINE

We may search long to find where God is, but we shall find Him in those who keep the words of Christ. For the Lord Christ saith, "If any man love me, he will keep my words; and we will make our abode with him."— MARTIN LUTHER

A consistent Christian may not have rapture; he has that which is much better than rapture - calmness - God's serene and perpetual presence.— F. W. ROBERTSON

I believe that into the weakest, saddest heart that opens to receive this Divine Guest, the Father and the Son will come and abide; and the exalted joy that abiding brings, what words can express! The Divine dwelling in the human, the Infinite in the finite, how marvelous! how glorious! This must be the real foretaste of heavenly joy - the truest heaven we can know on earth.— A. H. K

Nothing with God can be accidental.— LONGFELLOW

History is the revelation of providence.— KOSSUTH

The Providence that watches over the affairs of men works out of their mistakes, at times, a healthier issue than could have been accomplished by their wisest forethought.— J. A. FROUDE

There's a divinity that shapes our ends Rough-hew them how we will.— SHAKSPEARE