Relationship With God Quotes

“Every relationship for a Christian is an opportunity to love another person like God has loved us.”
― Joshua Harris, I Kissed Dating Goodbye

“Our relationship must be right with God before it can be right with man.”
― Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes

“The way I see it, putting your faith in God is something that each person has gotta come to on his or her own.It's your own personal relationship with Him; a bond that's as unique as a fingerprint.”
― Bethany Hamilton

“God wants us to humbly and sincerely ask him things. How often do you enjoy people talking about you without taking the time to get to know you?”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“I came to think of God as more of a gracious friend who was accompanying me on this journey, a friend who wanted to carry my burdens and speak into my life and shape me into who I really was and who I would become.”
― Joanna Gaines, The Magnolia Story

“The more I contemplate God, the more God looks on me. The more I pray to him, the more he thinks of me too.”
― Bernard of Clairvaux

“When Millennials face turmoil, they don’t just need answers from God, they need God.”
― David Kinnaman

“From Genesis to Revelation, holy text is all about relationships and the limitless flavors of those relationships. It is the duty of mankind to tap into our women's unique talents--their genius for 'relationships.'
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― Michael Ben Zehabe, Song of Songs: The Book for Daughters

“If we teach Truth but not the Source of Truth, we don't really succeed in passing on our faith.”
― Kevin Thoman

“It's not about an organized religious system, it's about a supernatural, intimate relationship with the creator God of Christianity".

~R. Alan Woods [2012]”
― R. Alan Woods, The Journey Is The Destination: A Photo Journal

“It's not about religion, it's about relationship".

~R. Alan Woods [2006]”
― R. Alan Woods, The Journey Is The Destination: A Photo Journal

“The mystery of seeking God is that HE is the One who finds you.”
― Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

“Mark Twain, cynical about so much else, has a particular reverence in the Holy Land for "sitting where a god has stood". What flabbergasted him was that his traveling companions would be in such a sanctified environment and winter what they saw according to other writers or their denominational background instead their own experience with the holy.”
― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad, Or, the New Pilgrims' Progress

“The word 'God' defines a personal relation, not an objective concept. Like the name of the beloved in every love. It does not imply separation and distance. Hearing the beloved name is an immediate awareness, a dimensionless proximity of presence. It is our life wholly transformed into relation.”
― Christos Yannaras, Variations on the Song of Songs

“To describe heaven it is not necessary to transport the materials of earth there. One must leave earth & its materials where they are, so as to beautify life with its ideal. To address Elohim familiarly is an unseemly buffoonery. The best way of showing him gratitude is not by yelling in his ears that he is mighty, that he created the world, that we are wormlets compared to his greatness. He knows it better than we. Men may excuse themselves of informing him of that. The best way of showing him gratitude is to console humanity, to restore all to it, take it by the hand & treat it like a brother. This is more genuine.”
― Comte de Lautréamont, Maldoror and the Complete Works

“We all want to spend eternity with God. We just don't want to spend time with Him. We stand and stare from a distance, satisfied with superficiality. We Facebook more than we seek His face. We text more than we study The Text. And our eyes aren't fixed on Jesus. They're fixed on our iPhones and iPads - emphasis on "i." Then we wonder why God feels so distant. It's because we're hugging the rim. We wonder why we're bored with our faith. It's because we're holding out.

We want joy without sacrifice.

We want character without suffering.

We want success without failure.

We want gain without pain.

We want a testimony without the test.

We want it all without going all out for it.”
― Mark Batterson, All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life

“Instead of fleeing God scrutiny, David welcomed it. It's like he was saying, "Look God, since I can't hide from you, since you know my very thoughts before I think them, I want you to fully know me. Be in the very core, the essence of my being. If you're going to know me, then know everything about me!”
― Will Davis Jr., 10 Things Jesus Never Said: And Why You Should Stop Believing Them

“An ever-growing, ever-constant relationship with God makes us certain of what we believe and enables us to run with endurance.”
― Katy Kauffman, 2 Timothy: Winning the Victory

“Any kind of hatred towards the opposite sex is a symptom of an unhealthy relationship with God.”
― Nityananda Das, Divine Union

“Even if you have got nothing else left, be proud of your relationship with God.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Fearlessness is not what you do to win, but what you don't do. When you love yourself as much as your God, you won't see other people as the source of your pain. Rather, you will see who you have become because you honestly believed that your chains would be broken through hatred, instead of kindness.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“In medieval India, the Hindu Vaishnava system of bhakti-yoga (devotional yoga) developed highly sophisticated categories of relation (rasa) to God, including santa (awe and reverence), vatsalya (parental attitude toward God), dasya (servant of God), sakhya (being friends and playmates with God), and madburya (passionate, romantic love).”
― Siobhan Houston, Invoking Mary Magdalene: Accessing the Wisdom of the Divine Feminine

“We want a god alright, but we humanize him enough to force him to be at our beck-and-call verses responding to the utter magnificence of His call.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Be in a close association with your creator whose is ever ready to direct your plans. Always ensure your convictions are divine and backed by a Godly approval.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Dream big!: See your bigger picture!

“I think myself so terribly ‘clever’ that the need for God is blatantly irrelevant. And all the while, in the rapidly growing mess that I’m ‘cleverly’ creating, I rather quickly begin to realize that the only thing that is relevant is His relevance.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When we stop fighting we stop winning”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Why had I failed to realize the depth of Mary’s faith despite all those
letters? She’d certainly done her best to share it. The answer came to me in
the midst of my own faith journey, one that seemed to begin the night my
mother died and was jump-started when I lost David seventeen months later.

Why hadn’t I seen it?
Simple. I wasn’t looking.

According to Jeremiah 29:13 in the Bible, “You will seek me and find
me when you seek me with all your heart” (NIV). It wasn’t about Mary at all. It was about me. It wasn’t until my mother’s death that I began actively
seeking God. I didn’t see Mary’s Christian example because I hadn’t yet
developed spiritually. I wasn’t “there” yet. I didn’t recognize true faith
because I didn’t have my own.”
― Mary Potter Kenyon, Mary & Me: A Lasting Link Through Ink

“If you were to put all of the world’s pain in one fifty-five gallon drum, it would look silly next to the mountains of gold and silver found in each moment with God. Our problem is that we rarely see past the drum – The Dance of the Dead”
― Ted Dekker, When Heaven Weeps

“We can read a good spiritual book in search of information or in search of God. We will find only what we're looking for.”
― Ron Brackin