PRACTICING
THE PRESENCE OF GOD

Q: “What must one do in order to please God?”

A: “Whoever you may be, always have God before your eyes.”

Abba Anthony the Great

Make every effort then to let God be great and to ensure that all your good intentions and endeavors are directed to him in all that you do and in all that you refrain from doing.

Meister Eckhart

I worshiped God as often as I could, keeping my mind in His holy presence, and recalling it as often as I found it had wandered from Him. I found no small pain in this exercise, and yet I continued it, notwithstanding all the difficulties that occurred, without troubling or disquieting myself when my mind had wandered involuntarily. I made this my business not only at the appointed times of prayer, but all the day long; for at all times, every hour, every minute, even in the height of my business, I drove away from my mind everything that was capable of interrupting my thoughts of God.

Brother Lawrence

Let it be your business to keep your mind in the presence of the Lord.

Brother Lawrence

When the remembrance of God lives in the heart and there maintains the fear of Him, then all goes well; but when this remembrance grows weak or is kept only in the head, then all goes astray.

Theophan the Recluse

We should always honor and reverence Him as if we were always in His bodily presence.

Thomas à Kempis

We must break the evil habit of ignoring the spiritual. We must shift our interest from the seen to the unseen.

A.W. Tozer

Many have found the secret of which I speak and, without giving much thought to what is going on within them, constantly practice this habit of inwardly gazing upon God.

A.W. Tozer