Relationship With God Quotes - Page 2

• God loves us already and has from our very beginning. The Christian life is not about believing or doing what we need to believe or do so that we can be saved. Rather, it's about seeing what is already true – that God loves us already – and then beginning to live in this relationship. It is about becoming conscious of and intentional about a deepening relationship with God.

  Marcus Borg

  Christian, Believe, Becoming

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• The whole basis for our relationship with God is rooted and grounded in grace, in that which is not earned.

  R. C. Sproul

  Grace, Our Relationship, Bases

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• You must never sacrifice your relationship with God for the sake of a relationship with another person.

  Charles Stanley

  Sacrifice, Sake, Our Relationship

  Charles Stanley (2008). “Charles Stanley's Handbook for Christian Living: Biblical Answers to Life's Tough Questions”, p.409, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• For you to have any relationship with God, it must be through His Word by His Spirit.

  T. B. Joshua

  Spirit

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• Caring for your heart is also how you protect your relationship with God... [The heart] is where we commune with him. It is where we hear his voice. Most of the folks I know who have never heard God speak to them are the same folks who live far from their hearts.

  John Eldredge

  Heart, Caring, Voice

  John Eldredge (2008). “Eldredge 3 in 1 - Sacred Romance , Waking the Dead, Desire”, p.324, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Freedom is not the ability to do anything we want, whenever we want. Rather, FREEDOM is the ability to live responsibly the truth of our relationship with God and with one another.

  Pope John Paul II

  Want, Our Relationship, Ability

  Pope John Paul II, Greg Burke (1999). “An Invitation to Joy”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

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• If we were to boil down Christianity to its core, we'd be left with simply this: relationship with God. The living, loving God of the universe has spoken throughout history, and still speaks today - not just to pastors or priests, but to anyone who will listen. God will speak to you.

  Bill Hybels

  Today, Speak, Christianity

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• Prayer is important. It's the cornerstone of our relationship with God, our private time with the creator. In addition to that, preparing and taking action is as important as praying. Preparation is for our benefit and edification. Preparation is also bold faith in action. You pray because you believe God is going to do what you've prayed for. But we have to put in the work and prepare so that when the harvest comes, we're ready!

  DeVon Franklin

  Prayer, Believe, Preparation

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• One of the most freeing discoveries these past few years in my relationship with God is discovering that God is not a belief system or a fixed set of theological propositions.

  Jim Palmer

  Past, Discovery, Years

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• Most unmarried people have no idea what it takes to make a marriage work; they grossly underestimate the price people have to pay to build long-term, mutually satisfying relationships. And they fail to understand that the only people with the strength to pay that price are those who have plumbed the depths of their relationship with God, and have dealt with their own brokenness.

  Bill Hybels

  Ideas, Long, People

  Bill Hybels, Lynne Hybels (1993). “Fit to be Tied: Making Marriage Last a Lifetime”, p.39, Zondervan

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• I always believed in God and Christ, but I was in rebellion - trying to make my relationship with God fit into my life instead of making my life fit in with him. I was stubborn.

  Scott Stapp

  Relationship, Uprising, Trying

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• A personal relationship with God enhances life. First, it enables us to accept our limitations without being frustrated by them. It assures us that problems we can't solve are not necessarily insoluble. Second, when we need it, God offers us a sense of forgiveness, a sense of cleansing from our incompleteness. . . . Last and perhaps most important, a personal relationship with God redeems us from the fear of death. We needn't be afraid that all our good deeds will vanish when we die.

  Harold S. Kushner

  God, Frustrated, Important

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• You see, the secret of the gospel is that we become more spiritually mature when we focus less on what we need to do for God and focus more on all that God has already done for us. The irony of the gospel is that we actually perform better as we grow in our understanding that our relationship with God is based on Christ's performance for us, not our performance for him.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Focus, Understanding, Secret

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• It's bad enough for me to make choices that hurt my own relationship with God. How much more serious is it to be the cause of someone else deciding to sin? Not only must I choose the pathway of holiness for God's sake and for my own sake; I must also do it for the sake of others.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Hurt, Sins Not, Choices

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2008). “Brokenness, Surrender, Holiness: A Revive Our Hearts Trilogy”, p.300, Moody Publishers

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• Religion is a very dangerous thing. By that I mean being so caught up in rules and regulations and not focusing on the thing that matters most- a personal relationship with God.

  Joyce Meyer

  Mean, Regulation, Matter

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• A thirst for the infinite is indelibly present in human beings. Man was created to have a relationship with God; we need him.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Inspiration, Men

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• My relationship with God has gotten so much stronger. He's always had his hand on me. He always guided me. I didn't always go where he wanted me to go. But He always had me. Now that I'm actually listening and being obedient, life is so much better.

  DMX

  Hands, Listening, Stronger

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• The Bible constantly warns against a merely mercenary relationship with God - a friendship of convenience or self-interest. We should not love God simply because doing so will produce many consolations in our life. We must enter a true relationship, were we fall in love not with His benefits, but with Him.

  Robert Barron

  Falling In Love, Self, Benefits

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• You focus on the depth of your relationship [with God]; let Him determine the scope of your ministry

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Focus, Depth, Ministry

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• It's always been you know, religion that has been the primary impediment to actual relationship with God, because it creates a mythology about performance -- that you can perform your way into the appeasement of the deity. And you know, when you're born inside the cultural framework that I was, and you're born inside the religious traditions that I was, that becomes your understanding of spirituality: That it's about trying to please God. So, it's really not about God at all; it's about our ability to perform according to whatever the expectations are.

  William P. Young

  Religious, Expectations, Understanding

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• If you need a guide for your ongoing relationship with God, read Psalms.

  Jim George

  Needs, Ongoing, Psalms

  Jim George (2016). “The Basic Bible Pocket Guide: *Book by Book Summaries *Key Verses *Life Applications *Life Applications”, p.43, Harvest House Publishers

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• I have a really great relationship with God. I pray. I read the Bible.

  Hunter Tylo

  Relationship, Praying, Really Great

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• When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose.

  Ted Dekker

  Struggle, Writing, Evil

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• Jesus was a revolutionary, who did not become an extremist, since he did not offer an ideology, but Himself. He was also a mystic, who did not use his intimate relationship with God to avoid the social evils of his time, but shocked his milieu to the point of being executed as a rebel. In this sense he also remains for nuclear man the way to liberation and freedom.

  Henri Nouwen

  Jesus, Men, Intimate Relationships

  "The Wounded Healer". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1972.

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• I don't have any relationship with God and I've never wanted it. I don't believe in fate or in any superior entity; if a plane crashes and people die, it's not because Heaven said so.

  Fernando Alonso

  Believe, Fate, People

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