Communion With God Quotes

“God wants man to be His creature. Furthermore, He wants him to be His PARTNER. There is a causa Dei in the world. God wants light, not darkness. He wants cosmos, not chaos. He wants peace, not disorder. He wants man to administer and to receive justice rather than to inflict and to suffer injustice. He wants man to live according to the Spirit rather than according to the flesh. He wants man bound and pledged to Him rather than to any other authority. He wants man to live and not to die. Because He wills these things God is Lord, Shepherd, and Redeemer of man, who in His holiness and mercy meets His creature; who judges and forgives, rejects and receives, condemns and saves.”
― Karl Barth, The Humanity of God

“No soul ever fell away from God without giving up prayer. Prayer is that which establishes contact with Divine Power and opens the invisible resources of heaven. However dark the way, when we pray, temptation can never master us. The first step downward in the average soul is the giving up of the practice of prayer, the breaking of the circuit with divinity, and the proclamation of one’s owns self sufficiency.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Characters of the Passion: Lessons on Faith and Trust

“Prayer is communion with God.”
― Andrew Wommack, A Better Way to Pray

“Prayer is the natural outgushing of a soul in communion with Jesus. Just as the leaf and the fruit will come out of the vine-branch without any conscious effort on the part of the branch, but simply because of its living union with the stem, so prayer buds, and blossoms, and fruits out of souls abiding in Jesus.”
― Charles Spurgeon, Encouraged to Pray: Classic Sermons on Prayer

“He wants in His freedom actually not to be without man but WITH him and in the same freedom not against him but FOR him, and that apart from or even counter to what man deserves. He wants in fact to be man's partner, his almighty and compassionate Saviour. He chooses to give man the benefit of His power, which encompasses not only the high and the distant but also the deep and the near, in order to maintain communion with him in the realm guaranteed by His deity. He determines to love him, to be his God, his Lord, his compassionate Preserver and Saviour to eternal life, and to desire his praise and service.”
― Karl Barth, The Humanity of God

“Every woman deserves a Man who not only responds to her words, but to her silence as well!”
― Ramana Pemmaraju

“The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists in listening to them. Just as love to God begins with listening to His Word, so the beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them. It is God's love for us that He not only gives us His Word but also lends us His ear. So it is His work that we do for our brother and sister when we learn to listen to them.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

“We say we long for intimacy with God and others, and yet we structure our lives so that this becomes impossible. One might think we are avoiding intimacy, that maybe we really like our finely managed lives just the way they are.”
― Mark Galli, Chaos and Grace: Discovering the Liberating Work of the Holy Spirit

“Living communion with God in which He is real, alive, fresh, and present to your soul energizes a God-centered life.”
― Colin S. Smith, Jonah: Navigating a God-Centered Life

“...the Christian life in its fullness is far more than being active in a Christian community, affirming a certain set of beliefs or adopting a particular behavior pattern. These are a secondary result of the primary reality of a life engaged in an ever deepening union with God in love.”
― M. Robert Mulholland Jr., The Deeper Journey: The Spirituality of Discovering Your True Self

“Dear brethren, if we shut our ears to what Jesus tells us, we shall never have power in prayer, nor shall we enjoy intimate communion with the Well-beloved.”
― Charles Spurgeon, Encouraged to Pray: Classic Sermons on Prayer

“Lord, I come to you in meditation and prayer. I ask that you never turn from me. Never let me lack communion with you. Let my life be filled with all the beauty that abides in you and let these things guide me. If I have wronged you or your laws in anyway, even in 'thought', please forgive me. You know deep in my heart I want and I try to do good but I fall short. At times, I despise my flesh; I know what I have to do. I want to do it but I choose not to & I'm sorry.”
― Jose R. Coronado, The Land Flowing With Milk And Honey

“Prayer has been hedged about with too many man-made rules. I am convinced that God has intended prayer to be as simple and natural and as constant a part of our spiritual life, as the intercourse between a child and his parent in the home. And as a large part of that intercourse between child and parent is simply asking and receiving, just so is it with us and our Heavenly Parent.”
― Rosalind Goforth

“When the fleeting pleasures of sin are gone, then we remember the good ol' days, when we enjoyed the sweet communion that we shared with our Redeemer.”
― Royal Raj S

“In the religious life it is possible to commit an analogous error, and to prize so unwisely peaceful hours of communion, as to waive imperative duty for the sake of them; like Peter with his "Let us make here three tabernacles," while there were devil-ridden sufferers waiting to be healed down on the plain. Moments of devotion, which do not prepare for hours of practical righteousness, are very untrustworthy. But, on the other hand, the paths of righteousness will not be trodden by those who have known nothing of the green pastures and waters where the wearied can rest.”
― Alexander MacLaren, Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms

“We define Christian spiritual direction then, as help given by one Christian to another which enables the person to pay attention to God's personal communication to him or her, to respond to this personally communicating God, to grow in intimacy with this God and to live out the consequences of the relationship. The focus of this type of spiritual direction is on experiences, not on ideas, and specifically religious experiences, i.e., any experience of the mysterious Other whom we call God. Moreover, this experience is viewed, not as an isolated event, but as an ongoing expression of the ongoing personal relationship God has established with each one of us.”
― Jeannette A. Bakke, Holy Invitations: Exploring Spiritual Direction

“Do not expect trust to appear suddenly and in a state of completion. Trust grows gradually as we venture forth little by little, with God and each other. As our trust grows, so will our willingness and courage to speak and listen with greater freedom. Seeing things more clearly is often one of the fruits of our growing trust.”
― Jeannette A. Bakke, Holy Invitations: Exploring Spiritual Direction

“The increase of your grace and holiness depends on your acquaintance and communion with the God of grace.”
― John Fox, Time and the End of Time: Discourses on Redeeming the Time and Considering Our Latter End

“Communication happens on the periphery between two minds while communion melts two beings into one! What are YOU?” ”
― Ramana Pemmaraju

“When we commit each new day to God in prayer, asking for His provision, His will, His
plan for us in order that His will may be done on earth in our lives as it is in heaven, then
we start to begin our journey of ‘powerful prayer’. And we bring delight to the Father
because we seek fellowship with Him and His will more than things and above our own
desires.”
― Paddick Van Zyl

“Un-forgiveness towards others and even ourselves is one of the biggest causes of anxiety and broken relationships and a host of other ills that many individuals face and live with on a daily basis. Spiritual, mental and bodily health has a lot do with living a forgiving and forgiven life. Scripture is clear Matthew 6:14-15...”
― Paddick Van Zyl

“Prayer is a private communion with God.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Hour by hour, we build our relationship of love with God, beginning with days and nights of intercourse with Him through His word, worship, praise, and communion as we lay before His feet intercession for those around us.”
― John M. Sheehan, Purgatory; A place of pruning Book 1

“Religion may give you something to believe in, and even something to do. But in the end it is not enough. We do not need 'something' as desperately as we need 'Someone.' We need more than religion. We need Christ - Christ within us, the hope of glory. We need more than religion. We need a living relationship with the Son of God - a daily communion, a close walk, a life of love.”
― Elmo Stoll, Give Me This Mountain

“The opportunities for injecting your life with joy by focusing on God through prayer are literally endless.”
― Kevin P. Halloran, When Prayer Is a Struggle: A Practical Guide for Overcoming Obstacles in Prayer

“The antinomian principle, that it is needless for a man perfectly justified by faith to endeavor to keep the law and do good works, is a glaring evidence that legality is so ingrained in man's corrupt nature that until a man truly come to Christ by faith, the legal disposition will still be reigning in him. Let him turn himself into what shape or be of what principles he will in religion though he run into antinomianism; he will carry along with him his legal spirit which will always be a slavish and unholy spirit.”
― Thomas Boston, The Marrow of Modern Divinity