Intimacy With God Quotes - Page 9

• In other words, first we must call people to communion with God, to intimacy with God, to a sense of belonging. Most people are lost, confused, alienated. They suffer and struggle immensely in relationships. We have to proclaim loudly and clearly in our actions and in our words that God loves us that we belong to him. That's a call to the mystical life.

  Henri Nouwen

  Confused, Struggle, People

  Source: www.liguorian.org

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• Never water down or minimise the mighty Gospel of God by considering that people may be misled by certain statements. Present the Gospel in all its fullness and God will guard His own truth.

  Oswald Chambers

  People, Water, May

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.157, Discovery House

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• Jesus intercedes for us each day. Let us pray: Lord, have mercy on me; intercede for me!

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Each Day, Praying

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• Feel, my children, feel; feel for the poor, the ignorant, the downtrodden; feel till the heart stops and the brain reels and you think you will go mad; then pour the soul out at the feet of the Lord, and then will come power, help and indomitable energy.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Children, Heart, Thinking

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.41, Advaita Ashrama

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• God can do nothing for me until I recognize the limits of what is humanly possible, allowing Him to do the impossible.

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Christian, Limits

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.309, Discovery House

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• Bless, O Lord of the centuries and the millennia, the daily work by which men and women provide bread for themselves and their loved ones. We also offer to your fatherly hands the toil and sacrifices associated with work, in union with your Son Jesus Christ, who redeemed human work from the yoke of sin and restored it to its original dignity.

  Pope John Paul II

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Son

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• Unless you believe the gospel, everything you do will be driven by either pride or fear.

  Timothy Keller

  Believe, Pride, Driven

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• You can have average talent, but when God breathes on your life, you will go further than people that have great talent. Don't talk yourself out of it.

  Joel Osteen

  Average, People, Talent

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• The Spirit of prayer makes us so intimate with God that we scarcely pass through an experience before we speak to Him about it, either in supplication, in sighing, in pouring out our woes before Him, in fervent requests, or in thanksgiving and adoration.

  Ole Hallesby

  Prayer, Pouring, Woe

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• If you can believe, worry and anxiety will vanish

  T. B. Joshua

  Believe, Worry, Anxiety

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• Nothing done with the focus on God is ever a waste of time.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Focus, Done, Waste

  Twitter post from Dec 24, 2015

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• Once the joy of intimacy with God has been experienced, life becomes unbearable without it.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Joy, Unbearable, Intimacy

  J. Oswald Sanders (2015). “Enjoying Intimacy with God”, p.64, Discovery House

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• The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust

  Brennan Manning

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Suffering

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• Praise is the 'breath' which gives us life, because it is intimacy with God, an intimacy that grows through daily praise.

  Pope Francis

  Breathing, Giving, Praise

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• The true, the genuine worship is when man, through his spirit, attains to friendship and intimacy with God. True and genuine worship is not to come to a certain place; it is not to go through a certain ritual or liturgy; it is not even to bring certain gifts. True worship is when the spirit, the immortal and invisible part of man, speaks to and meets with God, who is immortal and invisible.

  William Barclay

  Men, Spirit, Worship

  William Barclay (1956). “The Gospel of John”

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• Praise becomes compulsory when we experience true intimacy [with God].

  Beth Moore

  Praise, Intimacy, Compulsory

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• The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust — not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God.

  Brennan Manning

  Thanksgiving, Spiritual, Gratitude

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• It is precisely in times of spiritual dryness that we must hold on to our spiritual discipline so that we can grow into new intimacy with God.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Discipline, Intimacy

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• A talkative soul lacks both the essential virtues and intimacy with God. A deeper interior life, one of gentle peace and of that silence where the Lord dwells, is quite out of the question. A soul that has never tasted the sweetness of inner silence is a restless spirit which disturbs the silence of others.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Silence, Soul, Essentials

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• The priestly vocation is essentially a call to sanctity, in the form that derives from the Sacrament of Holy Orders.  Sanctity is intimacy with God; it is the imitation of Christ, poor, chaste and humble; it is unreserved love for souls and self-giving to their true good; it is love for the church which is holy and wants us to be holy, because such is the mission that Christ has entrusted to it.  Each one of you must be holy also in order to help your brothers pursue their vocation to sanctity.

  Pope John Paul I

  Brother, Humble, Self

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• Again, our marriage problems are not really marriage problems. They are heart problems. They are God problems. Our lack of intimacy with God causes a void that we try to fill with the frailest of substitutes. Like wealth or pleasure. Like fame or respect. Like people. Like marriage.

  Francis Chan

  Heart, People, Trying

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• Meditation is like giving a hug to our ourselves, getting in touch whith that awesome reality in us. While meditating we feel a deep sense of intimacy with God, a love that is inexplicable.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Reality, Giving, Meditation

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• Intimacy with God is to be preferred above material wealth.

  Max Anders

  Wealth, Intimacy, Materials

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• Look at your ministry as a marathon not a sprint - build deep foundations of intimacy with God and never let your public schedule get fuller than your time alone with God.

  Vicky Beeching

  Foundation, Ministry, Looks

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• Perhaps you have been ensnared by a sinful habit that you will not abandon, and your guilt is so overwhelming you are ashamed to approach Christ. Whatever the reason for your broken intimacy with God, there is good news. Jesus waits to embrace you now in the arms of unconditional, divine love.

  Charles Stanley

  Jesus, Broken, Waiting

  Charles F. Stanley (2001). “A Gift of Love: Reflections for the Tender Heart”, Thomas Nelson Publishers

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