Intimacy With God Quotes

There is a wide distinction between confessing sin as a culprit, and confessing sin as a child. The Father's bosom is the place for penitent confessions.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The obedience which God's children yield to Him must be loving obedience. Do not go about the service of God as slaves to their taskmaster's toil, but run in the way of His commands because it is your Father's way.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

God's Fatherly prerogative, is a kingly attribute so sweetly veiled in love, that the King's crown is forgotten in the King's face, and His sceptre becomes, not a rod of iron, but a silver sceptre of mercy—the sceptre indeed seems to be forgotten in the tender hand of Him who wields it.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

A servile spirit you have nothing to do with: you are not a slave, but a child; and now, inasmuch as you are a beloved child, you are bound to obey your Father's faintest wish, the least intimation of His will.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Prayer is a way of language practiced in the presence of God in which we become more than ourselves while remaining ourselves.

~ Eugene H. Peterson

Unlike mere action, prayer is not subject to immediate evaluation or verification. If we are addicted to results we will quickly lose interest in prayer.

~ Eugene H. Peterson

As we grow into maturity in Christ our distinctiveness is accentuated, not blunted. General directions, useful as they are, don't take into account the details that face us as holiness takes root in the particular social and personal place we are planted.

~ Eugene H. Peterson

Preaching reveals God in action here and now -- for ME.

~ Eugene H. Peterson

No heart is as whole as a broken heart, and no faith is as solid as a wounded faith. Elie Wiesel

~ John Ortberg

Salvation is the creation of new desires, not just new goodies.

~ John Piper

You get a feeling when you look back on life that all God really wants from us is to live inside a body He made, and enjoy the story, and to bond with Him through the experience.

~ Donald Miller

It is hard to hear God, but it is even harder not to hear God. The pain one brings upon oneself by living outside of evident reality is a greater and longer-lasting pain than the brief pain of facing it head on.

~ Richard Rohr

The church has a deep well of joy, of which none can drink but her own children. There are stores of wine, and oil, and corn, hidden in the midst of our Jerusalem, upon which the saints of God are evermore sustained and nurtured; and sometimes, as in our Saviour's case, we have our seasons of intense delight

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

We would – or at least we should – take upon ourselves the ultimate task of our poet: to seek the face of God.

~ Anthony M. Esolen