Best 71 quotes in «intimacy with god quotes» category

As we grow into maturity in Christ our distinctiveness is accentuated, not blunted. General directions, useful as they are, don't take into account the details that face us as holiness takes root in the particular social and personal place we are planted.

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.

A faithful dependent, I overlook his folly.

Almightiness and wisdom combined will make no failures.

A servile spirit you have nothing to do with: you are not a slave, but a child; and now, inasmuch as you are a beloved child, you are bound to obey your Father's faintest wish, the least intimation of His will.

As you soak in His Presence, and soak up His love for you, you will begin to know that you are truly and totally loved, maybe for the first time in your life. This will change your life in so many ways. You will feel and experience His love and His rest and His peace daily and this cannot help but affect your life.

Be less religious and discover for yourself how to be intimate with God.

Dost thou want another eye beside that of Him who sees every secret thing?

Christ loved the sons of men before there were sons of men, and me before there was me. If he was going to get tired of me, he would have done so before now.

Everything in Scripture is either preparation for the Gospel, presentation of the Gospel, or participation in the Gospel.

Down deep in His innermost soul Christ carried an inexhaustible treasury of refined and heavenly joy.

Even though every identity marker I have can be taken from me, the grace and peace of the Trinity overflows into the life of the believer.

God is far away only from them that have never come to Him through Jesus Christ.

God’s desire is to not only have you experience His love, but to totally overwhelm you with His love. To have you experience it to overflowing. To have you sense, feel, taste, and touch His love for you. He really wants you to experience Him!

God's Fatherly prerogative, " is a kingly attribute so sweetly veiled in love, that the King's crown is forgotten in the King's face, and His sceptre becomes, not a rod of iron, but a silver sceptre of mercy—the sceptre indeed seems to be forgotten in the tender hand of Him who wields it.

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.

Faith is the angelic messenger between the soul and the Lord Jesus in glory.

Faith is the road, but communion with Jesus is the well from which the pilgrim drinks.

God is our example in parenting.

He would henceforth worship and defend the very reason for Joy, the Almighty Maker of Joy.

Holy desire can be learned. All prayer is part work and part rest.

He has an eternity of love He is just waiting to give you. The more you soak it in, the more of His love you can take in. He wants to saturate you in His love.

Heart-to-heart journaling is a dialogue with God where both you and God are talking and you are recording it on paper. Heart-to-heart journaling is simply writing out your thoughts to God and what you sense to be His answer or response to you.

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)

I had the faith of a sermon, but not the faith of his son. – John Wesley

Intimacy with God is not experienced through monolog prayers but through reflective listening as well as earnest petitioning.

It has always been dangerous to institutionalize hope, and we no longer live in a society in which we will be allowed to institutionalize memory.

If you truly desire intimacy with your Father and Jesus, you must be willing to do what is the very heart of intimacy: share who you really are with Him—all your innermost thoughts and feelings.

Intimacy with God is what determines our exploits.

It is hard to hear God, but it is even harder not to hear God. The pain one brings upon oneself by living outside of evident reality is a greater and longer-lasting pain than the brief pain of facing it head on.

It’s easier to be close to God during prayer time when you’re close to God all the time.

It is the heaven-born instinct of a gracious soul to seek shelter from all ills beneath the wings of Jehovah. A hypocrite, when afflicted by God, resents the infliction, and, like a slave, would run from the Master who has scourged him

Love is a Person Who wants to be known.

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

No heart is as whole as a broken heart, and no faith is as solid as a wounded faith." Elie Wiesel

Love is naked and unashamed and infinitely assessable to the world He gave Himself up for.

One of the best ways to let Him inside you is to honestly share your feelings with Him. You need to be brutally honest with Him and with yourself in how you are feeling. By pouring out your heart to Him honestly—being totally transparent and vulnerable—you create tremendous intimacy. You are letting Him inside you. "The goal in sharing your heart with Him is to talk about the things that really matter; your feelings and emotions on a subject that is really important to you.

Prayer is a refusal to live as an outsider to my God and my own soul.

Prayer is the forerunner of mercy.

Romance depends upon imperfect knowledge.

Salvation is the creation of new desires, not just new goodies.

Prayer is a way of language practiced in the presence of God in which we become more than ourselves while remaining ourselves.

Preaching reveals God in action here and now -- for ME.

Soaking” seems like a crazy word in an intimacy book. Yet that is exactly what you want to do in your relational time with Him, you want to “soak in and soak up” His presence, “soak in and soak up” His love.

Private worship excites us for public worship.

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

The Christian knows no change with regard to God. He may be rich to-day and poor to-morrow; he may be sickly to-day and well to-morrow; he may be in happiness to-day, to-morrow he may be distressed-but there is no change with regard to his relationship to God. If He loved me yesterday, He loves me to-day.

See, loving heart, how He delights in you. When you lean your head on His bosom, you not only receive, but you give Him joy; when you gaze with love upon His all-glorious face, you not only obtain comfort, but impart delight.

So highly revered was commingle, that the Jews called him "the beauty of the Law".

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