Been going through a season where I'm
not feeling His presence.
Of course we may sometimes feel closer to Him, and at other times
not feel His presence at all.
If you choose to shut Him out then you won't feel his presence.
At least that selfish prick Aslan doesn't appear to make the kids feel awful — there's enough guilt being forced upon the protagonist that the lion probably didn't feel his presence was necessary.
You don't feel my presence.
Exarchopolous, feeling like she's come from nowhere, is in every single scene, the unflinching center of our attention and identification throughout, and Kechiche weaves the film around her so unobtrusively that you almost don't feel his presence (except possibly in the film's laudably graphic but nonetheless overlong first lesbian sex scene)-- surely a mark of an exceptional skill.
For example, in the earlier drafts of my story, I didn't have many clues about the villains in my story, and the reader didn't feel their presence as a result.
Not exact matches
Ackman wasn't at this year's conference, but his
presence was
felt in multiple years.
Many small business owners
feel that they have to settle for less when it comes to their web
presence; many don't even have a website.
But people don't require photo - realism to
feel what VR experts call «
presence.»
Social media ambassadorships, influencer campaigns and virtual focus groups
not only make Gen Z
feel invested in your company and secure their loyalty early on, but also helps them boost their own online
presence.
Consequently, those who chose to stay away and
not support the protest passed up on an opportunity to make their
presence felt at what turned out to be a truly unique event in Canadian labour history.
The quest is
not unwarranted, as the Millennial generation continues to make its
presence felt on the financial services sector with each passing year.
Not that I would need him to be toted out and displayed in public or anything like that, in fact, I felt it was wrong when it was done so much during the election - after all young children should be sheltered from the crazy attention that follows the Palins around - but the lack of mention of his presence makes it pretty clear he is not taking this bus to
Not that I would need him to be toted out and displayed in public or anything like that, in fact, I
felt it was wrong when it was done so much during the election - after all young children should be sheltered from the crazy attention that follows the Palins around - but the lack of mention of his
presence makes it pretty clear he is
not taking this bus to
not taking this bus tour.
The picture was
not all rosy — the slower output growth of 1996 was still making its
presence felt in the form of sluggish employment growth in the first half of 1997, there were some doubts about the strength of investment, and the effects of El Niño were around the corner.
I
feel the need to point out that the absence of religion does
not insure a free mind, nor does it's
presence preclude a free mind
My answer my
not satisfy you, but all I can say about
feeling Christ's
presence in my life, is that it is something I can't
not do.
If YOU don't
feel the need for a chaplain, your course is clear; DO
N'T CALL ONE, but I would urge each of us not to imagine or insist that just because WE don't find a pastoral presence comforting or necessary that NO ONE would or shou
N'T CALL ONE, but I would urge each of us
not to imagine or insist that just because WE don't find a pastoral
presence comforting or necessary that NO ONE would or should.
As per the quote, what we do in comparison to God is «like filthy rags» and rightfully so — we are comparing creation with the Creator — I am also guessing we all
feel like Isaiah in that
presence of the Creator «
not worthy» to even look upon it or speak.
That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I
feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and
feel his love which I used to
feel the
presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a
feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm
not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll
I had met many good people before who made me ashamed of my own shortcomings — but in the
presence of this man — we never discussed anything but literary business — I did
not feel ashamed.
I've been doing this for a few weeks now, and though I can't say my stress is completely gone and everything is roses, I have
felt more aware of how good my life is and more aware of God's
presence in it.
He concluded his first letter, back in 1979, with these touching words: «Think of the places where people anxiously await a priest, and where for many years,
feeling the lack of such a priest, they do
not cease to hope for his
presence.
All romancing and trumpeting abroad about one's cleverness in penetrating the God's incognito, though without receiving the condition from the Teacher; that one took notice of him by the impression he made, such a strange
feeling coming over one in his
presence; that there was a something in his voice and mien, etc., etc. — all this is but silly twaddle, by which one does
not become a disciple but only makes a mockery of the God.1 The servant - figure was no incognito.
What I can't get are those people who
feel the actual
presence of God.
When you have
felt His
presence, His peace, heard Him speak to your heart, had supernatural experiences with no earthy explanation, you could
not possibly think, «Perhaps this is all there is.»
It is
not so important that you should know about the fact of God as that you should increasingly grow in the ability to
feel the
presence of God.
Even if it seems your prayers seem bounce off the ceiling, even if you do
not sense God's
presence, even if God
feels absent and silent, the reality is the exact opposite.
There are other good
feelings which are
not the lifting, life - changing
feeling of the consciousness of God's
presence.
Think you are wisely right to have your concerns but let me Guide you to ask which branches of Islam handles each mosque you know of and find out more about their mentality and they call for since
not all branches of Islam are of danger, but you mentioned some thing which make me
feel that there is a possibility that you got the most redial branch of all Islam branches... This branch is taking advantage of the
presence of non harming Muslims to expand it's redical teachings by offerings or force turning Islamic communities from normal to most redical of all... do
not favor to give the name of that branch but sure you will find it if you look for it...
In that sense, the Presbyterian debates do
not feel like friendly arguments over the breakfast table, or even the more heated kinds of exchanges that might take place in the
presence of a marriage counselor.
Your
feelings of «God's
presence» are
not proof of your god's existence.
However irreproachably I lived as a monk, I
felt myself in the
presence of God to be a sinner with a most unquiet conscience... I did
not love, indeed I hated this just God... I raged with a fierce and most agitated conscience and yet I continued to knock away at Paul in this place, thirsting ardently to know what he really meant... At last I began to understand the justice of God as that by which the just man lives by the gift of God, that is to say by faith... At this I
felt myself to have been born again and to have entered through open gates into paradise itself.6
It really doesn't matter how we
feel at some point in our life, or what mistakes we have made, or whether or
not we can sense the Holy Spirit's
presence.
I know what I am
feeling — and being fool enough to still long enough in the Beauty of His
presence let me sense what I hadn't known?
But the Christian experience of the risen Lord is of being confronted by an external reality that is both of God (and
not simply from God), yet also distinct from God the Father: as he cries «my Lord and my God,» the Christian
feels as all the New Testament writers emphasize — that the living
presence which confronts him is that of Jesus.
Those of us who do see or
feel the
presence of God, on the other hand, are forced to conclude that the others are either blind, or closed off to the spiritual realities of this world, or simply unlucky enough
not to have experienced God.6
I hope and pray for those who don't know God and who has never
felt the
presences of the lord when you need him the most.
produces percepta which are vague,
not to be controlled, heavy with emotion: it produces the sense of derivation from an immediate past, and of passage to an immediate future; a sense of emotional
feeling, belonging to oneself in the past, passing into oneself in the present, and passing from oneself in the present towards oneself in the future, a sense of influx of influence from other vaguer
presences in the past, localized and yet evading local definition....
Everyone
feels the
presence in the conference of a power
not ourselves, deeper than our own devices, Which is making for a triumphant advance of Christianity abroad.
But even if they do
not (and many do
not) wish this, social pressures are sufficient to make them
feel that it will be better for them
not to burden others by their
presence and demands.
The world was created so that even in the most physical of places, which is a place that hides the
presence of G - d so that it can
not be seen or
felt, G - d's
presence will be there.
Highlights for me included Chapter 2 («Turtles All the Way Down»), in which Jason manages to use a strange blend of Stephen Hawking and Dr. Suess to engage readers in a really helpful dissection of presuppositional apologetics, Chapter 4 («The Weight of Absence»), which beautifully illustrates the fear and emptiness that comes from
not feeling God's
presence as often or as keenly as other people seem to, and Chapter 5 («Reverse Bricklaying»), which describes Jason's struggles with prayer and the comfort he finds in traditional liturgy.
Whilst I'm certainly
not advocating magic or rituals, I wonder how it
felt for the elders of Israel to «eat in drink» in God's
presence, or what is was like for the disciples to join Jesus for that resurrection breakfast on the sea of Galilee?
Often, atheists and agnostics
feel like we're alone because many of us choose
not to advertise our
presence to make our lives easier.
Being upset by the
presence of people different from you to the point of
feeling like you have to hurt them isn't a virtue.
Is it
not true that you were told what to expect in miracles, of prayers, and what the «
presence» of God was supposed to
feel like?
it is consistent in my 20plus years... I
feel his
presence... I experience his
presence... I do
not experience the
presence of others... anyhow..
The strictly literal comment, «Honey, your
presence makes me
feel good today» doesn't pack the punch that the «sunshine» figure provides.
I would
not hesitate to go to a wedding, funeral, graduation, retirement party, baby shower, ballgame, courtroom, birthday party, family reunion, public hearing, town parade, school play, or other social function due to the
presence or lack of a 1 - 2 minute prayer from a pastor, priest, rabbi, imam, valedictorian, mayor, police chief, council member, or 3rd grader who will play the Tree in the school spring play, nor would I
feel it appropriate or necessary to make a social scene just so everyone could hear my opinion on the matter.