Intimacy With God Quotes

As I worship, my perspective shifts. I focus on His attributes: His goodness, His power, His name, and His mercy. Crises that once overwhelmed me become insignificant in comparison to God’s vast power and all-encompassing love for me as His child.

~ Katherine J. Walden

What do we advertise about You by how we serve? Do we reflect the belief shown in Jesus’ parable that You are a hard master taking what isn’t Yours? Forgive us for even brief lapses into such churlishness. Or, do we reflect a joy in serving that radiates from an intimate and time-tested knowledge of the goodness of the One we serve? Paul and Daniel were confident of this sovereign goodness even when they were prisoners rather than courtiers, and we can likewise tap into a joy that defies circumstances. When this happens, the oft-disappointed world will notice and investigate.11/02/2010 blog

~ Brian Eshleman

Become a man or woman of prayer...Let your heart and mind be kept close to the principal calling of your life, which is to hunger and thirst after God and His righteousness...Let the thoughts and intents of your heart be shaped and guided by time spent in His presence.

~ Ravi Zacharias

Intimacy with God is not experienced through monolog prayers but through reflective listening as well as earnest petitioning.

~ Gary Rohrmayer

Just as teenagers can live in the same house as their parents, yet choose not to live “close” to them in partnership, so we can choose to be children of God, yet live very distant from God in our hearts. On the other hand, we can choose to have the closest partnership with Him, in which we know what He thinks, believes, and acts and what is important to Him. In this place of intimacy, we also discover just how close He wants to be with us.

~ Theresa Dedmon

A fair vision had welcomed him in this land of disease.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

You will find it a stronghold in the day of trial to plead your adoption. You have no rights as a subject, you have forfeited them by your treason; but nothing can forfeit a child's right to a father's protection.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Faith is the angelic messenger between the soul and the Lord Jesus in glory.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The Christian knows no change with regard to God. He may be rich to-day and poor to-morrow; he may be sickly to-day and well to-morrow; he may be in happiness to-day, to-morrow he may be distressed-but there is no change with regard to his relationship to God. If He loved me yesterday, He loves me to-day.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Worldlings pray to the Lord in times of need, when it serves their turn. They cry to Him in trouble, but forsake Him in prosperity.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

See, loving heart, how He delights in you. When you lean your head on His bosom, you not only receive, but you give Him joy; when you gaze with love upon His all-glorious face, you not only obtain comfort, but impart delight.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

He had been present in their minds not as a man but as an idea.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

Will You help me hear the song You're singing over all this noise?

~ Steven Curtis Chapman

It’s easier to be close to God during prayer time when you’re close to God all the time.

~ Jared Brock

The spirit of divinity is the spirit of being.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The only freedom that lasts comes from pursuing what we want when we want what we ought.

~ John Piper

There is no balm in Gilead, but there is balm in God. There is no physician among the creatures, but the Creator is Jehovah-rophi.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Where doest Thou feed Thy flock? In Thy house? I will go, if I may find Thee there. In private prayer? Then I will pray without ceasing. In the Word? Then I will read it diligently. In Thine ordinances? Then I will walk in them with all my heart. Tell me where Thou feedest, for wherever Thou standest as the Shepherd, there will I lie down as a sheep.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Prayer is the forerunner of mercy.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us, it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.

~ Monica Baldwin

Trying to know God and serve Him before we come to love Him is exhausting.

~ Beth Moore

We don't need to pray to prove that we're properly pious or really serious. Instead, we pray because we are completely assured, and because the Father hears our prayers because they come to Him through the lips of His dear Son.

~ Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

Our intimacy with God broadens our influence on earth.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Faith is the road, but communion with Jesus is the well from which the pilgrim drinks.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It has always been dangerous to institutionalize hope, and we no longer live in a society in which we will be allowed to institutionalize memory.

~ Harold Bloom

Romance depends upon imperfect knowledge.

~ Harold Bloom

J.R.R. Tolkien told a questioning correspondent, life's purpose is to know, praise, and thank God.

~ Philip Zaleski

It is the heaven-born instinct of a gracious soul to seek shelter from all ills beneath the wings of Jehovah. A hypocrite, when afflicted by God, resents the infliction, and, like a slave, would run from the Master who has scourged him

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Everything in Scripture is either preparation for the Gospel, presentation of the Gospel, or participation in the Gospel.

~ Dave Harvey

Nothing but the infinite can ever satisfy me; I am such a great sinner that I must have infinite merit to wash my sin away; but we have had our sin removed, and found that there was merit to spare; we have had our hunger relieved at the feast of sacred love

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Down deep in His innermost soul Christ carried an inexhaustible treasury of refined and heavenly joy.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Holy desire can be learned. All prayer is part work and part rest.

~ Jen Pollock Michel

Images of the Holy easily become holy images -- sacrosanct. My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself. He is the great iconoclast. Could we not almost say that this shattering is one of the marks His presence? The Incarnation is the supreme example, it leads all previous idea of the Messiah in ruins.

~ C.s. Lewis

So highly revered was commingle, that the Jews called him the beauty of the Law.

~ Beth Moore

Dost thou want another eye beside that of Him who sees every secret thing?

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Almightiness and wisdom combined will make no failures.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

He would henceforth worship and defend the very reason for Joy, the Almighty Maker of Joy.

~ Philip Zaleski

A faithful dependent, I overlook his folly.

~ Charles Dickens

Christ loved the sons of men before there were sons of men, and me before there was me. If he was going to get tired of me, he would have done so before now.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon