Intimacy With God Quotes

“Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.”
― Charles Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version

“Everything in Scripture is either preparation for the Gospel, presentation of the Gospel, or participation in the Gospel.”
― Dave Harvey

“Prayer is a refusal to live as an outsider to my God and my own soul.”
― Eugene H. Peterson, Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers

“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, I, Isaac, Take Thee, Rebekah

“Trying to know God and serve Him before we come to love Him is exhausting.”
― Beth Moore, To Live Is Christ: Joining Paul's Journey of Faith

“Faith is the road, but communion with Jesus is the well from which the pilgrim drinks.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“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, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version

“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, Dare to Call Him Friend

“In the unfixables of our lives we are invited to keep company with Jesus and take a risk that God's intentions toward us are good. Day after day this is what Jesus did. It is called trust. He calls us: 'Keep company with me and you'll learn to live freely and lightly" (Matthew 11:30, MSG)”
― Adele Ahlberg Calhoun, Spiritual Disciplines Handbook: Practices That Transform Us

“Intimacy with God is the way to true fulfillment. How do you keep the Enemy from sitting at your table? You keep your eyes on Christ.”
― Louie Giglio, Don't Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table: It's Time to Win the Battle of Your Mind...

“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

“Intimacy with God is not experienced through monolog prayers but through reflective listening as well as earnest petitioning.”
― Gary Rohrmayer

“So highly revered was commingle, that the Jews called him "the beauty of the Law".”
― Beth Moore, To Live Is Christ: Joining Paul's Journey of Faith

“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, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version

“Down deep in His innermost soul Christ carried an inexhaustible treasury of refined and heavenly joy.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version

“Holy desire can be learned. All prayer is part work and part rest.”
― Jen Pollock Michel, Teach Us to Want: Longing, Ambition and the Life of Faith

“Be less religious and discover for yourself how to be intimate with God.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Love is a Person Who wants to be known.”
― Catherine Toon, Marked by Love: Unveiling the Substance of Your True Identity

“The best kiss is the one that has been exchanged a thousand times between the eyes before it reaches the lips.”
― Faraaz Kazi

“The most important part of prayer is not the result it produces, but the intimacy it creates.”
― Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

“Prayer is either a discipline or a delight. If you focus on the act of prayer it is a discipline, when you focus on a person (GOD) it becomes a delight. Prayer as a delight is centered on GOD.”
― Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

“Almightiness and wisdom combined will make no failures.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version

“Faith is the angelic messenger between the soul and the Lord Jesus in glory.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version

“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, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version

“Let us labour to feel what an evil thing this is-little love to our own dying Saviour, little joy in our precious Jesus, little fellowship with the Beloved!”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version

“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

“Love is naked and unashamed and infinitely
assessable to the world He gave Himself up for.”
― Catherine Toon, Marked by Love: Unveiling the Substance of Your True Identity

“The Father being in the Son, the Son being in the Father, and the Spirit being the Spirit of the Father and the Son is the attribute of intimate relationship within God in complete unity and oneness.”
― Imad N. Shehadeh, God With Us and Without Us, Volume Two: The Beauty and Power of Oneness in Trinity

“God's presence is a position of face-to-face intimacy, fellowship, and favor.”
― Susanne Whitlock, Engaging the God Who Sees You: God Wants You As His Own

“Deep intimacy with the Lord is the ultimate remedy for the ache of insecurity and loneliness! When you find your identity in God's loving embrace, you no longer need the validation of others to feel worthy. His acceptance and love are enough to satisfy your soul, freeing you from the need for human approval. In His presence, you discover your true value and worth, and you realize that He alone is more than enough to fill the voids in your life!”
― Shaila Touchton