Intimacy With God Quotes
Intimacy With God Quote of the day
Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source.
The enemy works overtime to keep us in shame. He knows if he can keep us in shame, he can minimize our intimacy with God.
Once the joy of intimacy with God has been experienced, life becomes unbearable without it.
What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.
Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.
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.
One of the side effects of losing intimacy with God is that at some point we stop doing ministry out of imagination and we begin doing it out of memory.
To the degree you have experienced intimacy with God, you won’t be afraid of death because you’re experiencing the first tastes and promises of heaven in this world.
Intimacy with God is that I can come in with the honesty of my heart, tell Him how much I'm hurting.
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.
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.
Praise is the 'breath' which gives us life, because it is intimacy with God, an intimacy that grows through daily praise.
Private worship excites us for public worship.
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.
Holy desire can be learned. All prayer is part work and part rest.
Dost thou want another eye beside that of Him who sees every secret thing?
He would henceforth worship and defend the very reason for Joy, the Almighty Maker of Joy.
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.
There is a wide distinction between confessing sin as a culprit, and confessing sin as a child. The Father's bosom is the place for penitent confessions.
Prayer is a way of language practiced in the presence of God in which we become more than ourselves while remaining ourselves.
Unlike mere action, prayer is not subject to immediate evaluation or verification. If we are addicted to "results" we will quickly lose interest in prayer.
Preaching reveals God in action here and now -- for ME.
Romance depends upon imperfect knowledge.
No heart is as whole as a broken heart, and no faith is as solid as a wounded faith." Elie Wiesel
Salvation is the creation of new desires, not just new goodies.
You get a feeling when you look back on life that all God really wants from us is to live inside a body He made, and enjoy the story, and to bond with Him through the experience.
We would – or at least we should – take upon ourselves the ultimate task of our poet: to seek the face of God.
The only freedom that lasts comes from pursuing what we want when we want what we ought.
Intimacy with God is not experienced through monolog prayers but through reflective listening as well as earnest petitioning.
It’s easier to be close to God during prayer time when you’re close to God all the time.
So highly revered was commingle, that the Jews called him "the beauty of the Law".
Almightiness and wisdom combined will make no failures.
To obey the commands of Scripture can finally become a delight when we see that the reasons almost always center around God's love and provision for us in Christ.
Faith is the angelic messenger between the soul and the Lord Jesus in glory.
Worldlings pray to the Lord in times of need, when it serves their turn. They cry to Him in trouble, but forsake Him in prosperity.
He had been present in their minds not as a man but as an idea.
J.R.R. Tolkien told a questioning correspondent, life's purpose is to know, praise, and thank God.
There is no balm in Gilead, but there is balm in God. There is no physician among the creatures, but the Creator is Jehovah-rophi.
Prayer is the forerunner of mercy.
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.
Trying to know God and serve Him before we come to love Him is exhausting.
Faith is the road, but communion with Jesus is the well from which the pilgrim drinks.
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.