Relationship With God Quotes - Page 5

• Reality is not meant to be only creedal, though the creeds are important. Reality is to be experienced, and experienced on the basis of a restored relationship with God through that finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Jesus, Reality

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• Revival is a divinely initiated work in which God’s people pray, repent of their sin, and return to a holy, Spirit-filled, obedient, love-relationship with God.

  Henry Blackaby

  People, Love Relationship, Return

  Henry T. Blackaby, Richard Blackaby, Claude V. King (2009). “Fresh Encounter: God's Pattern for Spiritual Awakening”, p.15, B&H Publishing Group

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• Trials always change our relationship with God. Either they drive us to Him, or they drive us away from Him. The extent of our fear of Him and our awareness of His love for us determine in which direction we will move.

  Jerry Bridges

  Moving, Trials, His Love

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Practice of Godliness”, p.179, NavPress

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• Abstinence for me is about romance. It has nothing to do with my relationship with God. It's definitely a bonus in that department, but it's nothing spiritual. It's about giving something special to that person you're going to spend the rest of your life with.

  Jessica Simpson

  Spiritual, Giving, Romance

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• I think most American churchgoers are the soil that chokes the seed because of all the thorns.  Thorns are anything that distracts us from God.  When we want God and a bunch of other stuff, then that means we have thorns in our soil.  A relationship with God simply cannot grow when money, sins, activities, favorite sports teams, addictions, or commitments are piled on top of it.

  Francis Chan

  God, Sports, Religious

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.45, David C Cook

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• In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride. It is always considered as a sin. We are not speaking of a wholesome view of self-worth, which is best established by a close relationship with God. But we are speaking of pride as the universal sin, as someone has described it. . . . Essentially, pride is a "my will" rather than "thy will" approach to life. The opposite of pride is humbleness, meekness, submissiveness, or teachableness.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Life, Pride, Self Worth

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• Religion should be about your relationship with God, not what the church says you can and can't do.

  Eddie Guerrero

  Church, Our Relationship, Should

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• What brings a real and lasting joy is our relationships with God, and our love for His other children He has put in our lives. It's people; friends and family that fulfil us. All else, fame, popularity, beauty, is so fleeting.

  Lindsey Stirling

  Children, Real, People

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• When he sees little kids sitting in the backseat of cars, in those little car seats that have steering wheels, with grim expressions of concentration on their faces, clearly convinced that their efforts are causing the car to do whatever it is doing, he thinks of himself and his relationship with God: God who drives along silently, gently amused, in the real driver's seat.

  Anne Lamott

  God, Real, Kids

  Anne Lamott (1994). “Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year”, Fawcett

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• It might work in the short term, but it's not going to keep the people who hop from congregation to congregation. Church is about one's relationship with God and one's relationship with people. The gimmick may attract you for the moment, but it's the substance that will hold you there.

  J. Gordon Melton

  God, People, Church

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• We have endless books about whether Jesus existed, or whether the Jesus we have learned about is really accurate and historical or mythical. We have endless complicated tracts on fine technical issues, but we don't explore Jesus' way to happiness and peace, or try to understand his feelings about God and creation of how he views our relationship with God, or his attitude toward human weakness. Understanding these things could help us immensely in our own search for inner peace and a meaning to life.

  Joseph Girzone

  Jesus, Attitude, Book

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• There's an ethic that says: 'You don't run off to the church for the sacraments of salvation, you establish a personal relationship with God. You don't run off to the courts for justice, you settle it yourself. You don't run off to labor unions to sort out your work relations, you can take this job and shove it if you don't like what you're doing.

  John Shelton Reed

  Running, Jobs, Justice

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• If you want a television, you go out and work for it and you buy it. If you want to learn about Aztec pottery, you take a course. But the relationship with God requires the active and passionate participation of you, yourself. You have to risk it. You have to abandon yourself to it. You have to leap into the fire. Nobody will do it for you; nobody can do it for you.

  Andrew Harvey

  God, Fire, Aztec

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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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• If I can center down and strengthen the core of who I am, and the core of who I am is my relationship with God, then that helps me maintain peace deep down. If I can maintain a healthy spiritual core, I think that's enormous for helping the stress.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Spiritual, Stress, Thinking

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• That has been my personal relationship with God-a connection with the powerful, loving, wise energy in all of us, in all creation. It is the life force itself. We can all have contact with it each moment in our lives, but it takes commitment and practice. We must be willing to move through all our deepest fears, doubts, and misunderstandings.

  Shakti Gawain

  God, Wise, Powerful

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• Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

  Victoria Jackson

  Men

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• The Bible, and the peace that comes about through a continuous relationship with God are the best ways of knowing His will.

  Pat Robertson

  Knowing, Way, Best Way

  Pat Robertson (1984). “Answers to 200 of life's most probing questions”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Uncertainty as to our relationship to God is one of the most enfeebling and dispiriting of things. It makes a man heartless. It takes the pith out of him. He cannot fight; he cannot run. He is easily dismayed, and gives way. He can do nothing for God.

  Horatius Bonar

  Running, Fighting, Men

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• My relationship with God developed at an early age. I was raised on a remote little ranch, where I had for company and for the fullness of my life three other humans and an enormous amount of animals and land and sky and wind. As a child, my experience of God included everything-a love of the whole beauty around me. And the country was so beautiful: mountains that ended in aspen groves and streams, thick with wild animals and game of all kinds. One time I said to my mother, "You know, I think heaven is just like this, only the animals would speak to us; they wouldn't be afraid of us."

  Brooke Medicine Eagle

  Beautiful, God, Mother

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• I stay balanced by remembering to prioritize. What is most important should never be railroaded by the "tyranny of the urgent." My relationship with God, my devotion to my husband, my responsibilities to my children, loving others, and, of course, remaining grateful for the blessings that I have. Like getting to do what I love for a living. And trust me, I am.

  Maria Canals Barrera

  Children, Husband, Grateful

  "Maria Canals-Barrera: The consequence of avoiding our issues and being a fume head". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• In your relationship with God there are also times when you want to say things and you're trying to find the words to express them. In a human relationship sometimes you struggle for words and you've got to do it, but in a relationship with God he can actually give you a language which enables you to communicate. In a relationship with God you feel things and you want to express them and you're not limited by human language. You can express what you really feel in your heart, through a language that he gives you, and that helps you to communicate with God.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Struggle, Heart, Giving

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I was always real back and forth about the whole religion and God. That comes from me just dealing with that pain when I was younger, and just growing up, living that particular street lifestyle. It brought my relationship with God into question many times. I wanted to repair that and fix that, and that's what I went in and did. I did all of that. I wrote many albums and all that kind of stuff, but the most important part was fixing my mind, body, and soul; getting it together, really getting it together where I could have a future, and a successful future.

  Prodigy

  Growing Up, Pain, Real

  Source: maximumfun.org

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• It's my absolute passionate belief that every single human being, man, woman, or child, is aching to find a face-to-face relationship with God.

  Sheila Walsh

  Children, Men, Faces

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• I have a special relationship with God. And when I take the right photograph, God gives me a little bing! in the camera. And then I know I'm on the right track.

  William Klein

  Track, Giving, Special

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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