Intimate Relationship With God Quotes

• Let's dare to enter into an intimate relationship with God without fear, trusting that we will receive love and always more love.

  Henri Nouwen

  Intimate Relationships, Dare, Intimate

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2009). “Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith”, Harper Collins

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• Spirituality on the other hand, is a chosen path of developing intimate relationships with God. It's chosen, it's nurtured, and it's optional.

  Caroline Myss

  God, Hands, Intimate Relationships

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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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• What is Christianity all about? It is about an intimate relationship with God. And I HATE a christendom, a churchianity that God is not big enough and glorious enough so that we have to give them other things.

  Paul Washer

  Hate, Intimate Relationships, Giving

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• But perhaps the greatest attraction of Mormonism was the promise that each follower would be granted an extraordinarily intimate relationship with God. Joseph taught and encouraged his adherents to receive personal communiqués straight from the Lord. Divine revelation formed the bedrock of the religion.

  Jon Krakauer

  Intimate Relationships, Promise, Taught

  Jon Krakauer (2013). “Under The Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith”, p.80, Pan Macmillan

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• Choose a single, sacred word or phrase that captures something of the flavor of your intimate relationship with God. A word such as Jesus, Abba, Peace, God or a phrase such as "Abba, I belong to you." . . . Without moving your lips, repeat the sacred word inwardly, slowly, and often.

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Moving, Intimate Relationships

  Brennan Manning (2011). “The Signature of Jesus”, p.204, Multnomah

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