Communion With God Quotes - Page 4

• There is no sweeter manner of living in the world than continuous communion with God.

  Brother Lawrence

  Life, God, Christian

  Brother Lawrence (2013). “The Brother Lawrence Collection”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• The love of God again makes us free, for it draws us to set a low value on those things wherein we are subject to others - our wealth, our position, our reputation, and our life - and to set a high value on those things which no man can take from us - our integrity, our righteousness, our love for all men, and our communion with God.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Integrity, Men, Our Love

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• Religion is not a method, it is a life, a higher and supernatural life, mystical in its root and practical in its fruits; a communion with God, a calm and deep enthusiasm, a love which radiates, a force which acts, a happiness which overflows.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Roots, Religion, Enthusiasm

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• The soul that has been enriched by communion with God will not be dismayed by isolation but will welcome solitude. He will seek not the crowd but the closet, and emerging will never walk alone, for he has unseen companionship.

  Frances J Roberts

  Solitude, Soul, Crowds

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• The central significance of prayer is not in the things that happen as results, but in the deepening intimacy and unhurried communion with God at His central throne of control in order to discover a sense of God's need in order to call on God's help to meet that need.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Order, Needs

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• I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.

  John Donne

  Doing Good, Lost, Communion

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• Real prayer is communion with God

  Arthur W. Pink

  Prayer, Real, Communion

  Arthur W. Pink (2008). “Sovereignty of God”, p.216, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• The reality of living by faith as though we were already dead, of living by faith in open communion with God, and then stepping back into the external world as though we are already raised from the dead, this is not once for all, it is a matter of moment-by-moment faith, and living moment by moment. This morning's faith will never do for this noon. The faith of this noon will never do for suppertime . The faith of suppertime will never do for the next morning. Thank God for the reality for which we were created, a moment-by-moment communication with God himself.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Morning, Communication

  "The Francis Schaeffer Collection: True Spirituality / He Is There and He Is Not Silent".

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• Holiness is not a merit by which we can attain communion with God, but a gift of Christ, which enables us to cling to him, and to follow him.

  John Calvin

  Merit, Holiness, Christ

  John Calvin, Henry Van Andel (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.17, Baker Books

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• I am never lonely or discouraged or tired. When you live in constant communion with God, you cannot be lonely. When you perceive the working of God's wonderful plan and know that all good effort bears good fruit, you cannot be discouraged. When you have found inner peace, you are in contact with the source of universal energy and cannot be tired.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Lonely, Tired, Effort

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• To keep the heart then, is carefully to preserve it from sin which disorders it; and maintain that spiritual and gracious frame, which fits it for a life of communion with God.

  John Flavel

  Spiritual, Heart, Sin

  John Flavel (1799). “Whole Works of the Rev. Mr. John Flavel”, p.426

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• In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour... If criticism becomes a habit, it will destroy the moral energy of the life and paralyze the spiritual force... Whenever you are in a critical temper, it is impossible to enter into communion with God. Criticism makes you hard and vindictive and cruel, and leaves you with the flattering unction that you are a superior person. It is impossible to develop the characteristics of a saint and maintain a critical attitude.

  Oswald Chambers

  Love, Spiritual, Attitude

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• Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community.

  Henri Nouwen

  Community, Important, Ministry

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• It is only through love that we can attain to communion with God. All living knowledge of God rests upon this foundation: that we experience him in our lives as Will-to-love.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Love, Foundation, Knowledge Of God

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer”, p.67, Open Road Media

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• I ought to spend the best hours of the day in communion with God. It is my noblest and most fruitful employment, and is not to be thrust into any corner.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Employment, Hours, Communion

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1874). “Memoir and Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Minister of St. Peter's Church, Dundee”

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• A temple, first of all, is a place of
  prayer; and prayer is communion with God. It is the 'infinite in man
  seeking the infinite in God.' Where they find each other, there is holy
  sanctuary--a temple.

  B. H. Roberts

  Prayer, Men, Temples

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• Watch human nature; we are so built that if we do not get thrilled in the right way, we will get thrilled in the wrong. If we are without the thrill of communion with God, we will try to get thrilled by the devil, or by some concoction of human ingenuity.

  Oswald Chambers

  Trying, Devil, Watches

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Biblical Ethics / The Moral Foundations of Life / The Philosophy of Sin: Ethical Principles for the Christian Life”, p.242, Discovery House

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• When we have communion with God in the doctrine we contend for-then shall we be garrisoned by the grace of God against all the assaults of men.

  John Owen

  Men, Grace, Doctrine

  John Owen (1853). “The works ...”, p.52

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• We don't see the material world for what it is meant to be: the means to communion with God.... There is a belief missing, that God is good and that he gives good gifts.

  Ann Voskamp

  Mean, Giving, Missing

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• Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God - to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.

  Florence Nightingale

  Unseen, Holiness, Divine

  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2002). “Florence Nightingale's Theology: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.578, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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• The body and the soul join in doing the work of the soul, ie. praying, meditating, praising and coming in communion with God.

  Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria

  Soul, Body, Fasting

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• One of the gravest perils which besets the ministry is a restless scattering of energies over an amazing multiplicity of interests which leaves no margin of time and of strength for receptive and absorbing communion with God.

  Bonar Law

  Prayer, Energy, Ministry

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• Will I find spiritual communion with God sweet enough, and hope in his promises deep enough, not just to cope, but to flourish and rejoice in him?

  John Piper

  Spiritual, Sweet, Promise

  John Piper (2013). “A Hunger for God”, p.22, SPCK

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• Praying actualizes and deepens our communion with God. Our prayer can and should arise above all from our heart, from our needs, our hopes, our joys, our sufferings, from our shame over sin, and from our gratitude from the good. It can and should be a wholly personal prayer.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Gratitude, Prayer, Heart

  Pope Benedict XVI (2009). “Jesus of Nazareth”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• In the Lord Jesus Christ we see most clearly the union of prayer and life, the harmony and continual interpenetration of the two spheres of life - communion with God and the work on earth.

  Adolph Saphir

  Jesus, Prayer, Two

  Adolph Saphir (2015). “The Lord's Prayer”, p.7, Ravenio Books

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