Close To God Quotes

#1. There will never be anything more exciting or wonderful than being close to God.

Rick Joyner

#2. Yes, I've worked hard; and yes, I may have achieved a certain level of success-but I'm very clear about the fact that none of it would be worth it without doing the things that keep me close to God.

David Archuleta

#3. what matters is not that we believe in God. God is not small-minded. What matters is for us to understand that life is serious and rich. We should appreciate it and also try to make the world a better place. Whoever finds a balance between the two is close to God.

David Lagercrantz

#4. To be faithful, to be creative, we need to be able to change. To change! And why must I change? So that I can adapt to the situations in which I must proclaim the Gospel. To stay close to God, we need to know how to set out; we must not be afraid to set out.

Pope Francis

#5. It's not possible to be close to God without thinking about the lost. They never leave His mind.

Christine Caine

#6. Even Heaven would be Hell to some people because they'd be too close to God!

David Berg

#7. The wisest thing you'll ever do in this life is to draw close to God and to seek Him with all your heart.

Bob Sorge

#8. It seems as though we Christians have developed a nasty habit of leading people into a radical encounter with God's unconditional love, forgiveness, acceptance, and union only to spend the ensuing years teaching them how to become close to God to earn his approval.

Ted Dekker

#9. At this moment, each one of us is as close to God's throne of grace as we choose to be.

Joyce Meyer

#10. Snow reminds Ka of God! But I'm not sure it would be accurate. What brings me close to God is the silence of snow.

Orhan Pamuk

#11. I felt very close to God ... My friends say that's because I was always on my knees.

Armistead Maupin

#12. Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.

Muhammad Ali

#13. The lover of silence draws close to God. He talks to Him in secret and God enlightens him.

John Climacus

#14. If you don't feel as close to God today as you did yesterday, who moved?

Chris Heimerdinger

#15. POINT TO PONDER: I'm as close to God as I choose to be.

Rick Warren

#16. People who are close to God cultivate a personal intimacy with Him like a good gardener cultivates beautiful flowers.

Charles R. Swindoll

#17. ... I never understood until the past months why the Master so often withdrew alone into the wilderness. There is not only food and medicine for one's body; there is also healing for the heart and strength for the soul in nature. One gets very close to God ... in these temples of God's own building.

Harold Bell Wright

#18. If you want to become that close to 'God', die instead.

Kazuya Minekura

#19. Children are angels in exile, so close to God. They haven't had time to separate from Him.

Ali

Davis Miller

#20. Grief is better than happiness, because in grief a person draws close to God. Your wings open. A tent is set up in the desert where God can visit you. Wealth that arrives in grief is what we spend in joy. The soul is greater than anything you ever lost.

Bahauddin

#21. It isn't about miracles or proof or having God on speed dial. You want to be close to God? Reach down and help your neighbor. Faith without works is dead...

Sean Chercover

#22. You are as close to God as you choose to be.

Rick Warren

#23. Throughout Jesus' ministry, He took time away from the crowds and even His disciples to pray by Himself. Jesus modeled the importance of not only serving God with our actions but of being still and drawing close to God to renew our souls.

David Jeremiah

#24. As we get close to God, he is going to reveal things in our life that aren't pretty. We'll see the patterns of bitterness, anger, manipulation, and hurt that have cycled in our relationships.

Chip Ingram

#25. I guess a lot of people think that a girl who shows her bosom and wears tight dresses can't be close to God. God has always been close to me. Only He knew what was in my heart.

Jayne Mansfield

#26. Contrary to what the West seems to think, it is not poverty that brings people like us so close to God. It's the fact that no one is more curious than we are to learn why we are here on earth and what will happen to us in the next world.

Orhan Pamuk

#27. I don't mean that if you're a Christian, walking close to God, you will immediately gain celebrity. you may fail as an artist, because you may not have what the public want at that time, and you have to be prepared for that.

Cliff Richard

#28. I believe," she said slowly at last, "that the tormented are very close to God. I'm sorry, Sergeant." He

Lois McMaster Bujold

#29. Haven't my past sermons taught you anything?"
"Yes," Emilie threw at him, "that you pray for those who are close to God, and those who aren't, who need Him, you toss away like garbage.

Ann Rinaldi

#30. We are at this moment as close to God as we really choose to be. True, there are times when we would like to know a deeper intimacy, but when it comes to the point, we are not prepared to pay the price involved.

J. Oswald Sanders

#31. Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.

Steve Earle

#32. With Jesus, if we want to gain, we must give up. If we want to be filled, we must deny ourselves. If we want to truly get close to God, we'll have to distance ourselves from other things. If we want to conquer our cravings, we'll have to redirect them to God.

Lysa TerKeurst

#33. Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.

Lionel Hampton

#34. You have to be very strong to live close to God or a mountain, or you'll turn a little mad.

Rumer Godden

#35. Don't give Satan a foothold, but discipline yourself to stay close to God. He alone is your security.

Billy Graham

#36. Legalists and theological experts with "lips close to God and hearts far away from him" (Isa. 29:13). The world hardly needs more of these.

Dallas Willard

#37. You cannot stay where you are and go with God. You cannot continue doing things your way and accomplish God's purpose in His ways. Your thinking cannot come close to God's thoughts. For you to do the will of God, you must adjust your life to Him, His purposes, and His ways

Henry Blackaby

#38. We mustn't imagine that our feeling of being close to God is a true index of the reality.

N. T. Wright

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

Jared Brock

#40. Suffering brings me so close to God.

Ram Dass

#41. Live to seek to draw close to God in all ways and seek His transforming love

Elizabeth George

#42. One of the ways in which I feel close to God is writing poetry.

Christian Wiman

#43. The Christian in prayer comes up close to God, with a humble boldness of faith, and takes hold of him, wrestles with him; yea, will not let him go without a blessing ... They are only a few noble-spirited souls, who dare take heaven by force, that are fit for this calling.

William Gurnall

#44. A woman's heart should be so close to God that a man should have to chase Him to find her.

C.S. Lewis

#45. The friend of silence comes close to God. In secret he converses with him and receives his light.

John Climacus

#46. Whereas my joy lies in being close to God. I have taken shelter in the Lord, continually to proclaim what you have done. (Ps. 73:28)

Anonymous

#47. Sometimes I like to run naked in the moonlight and the wind, on a little trail behind our house, when the honeysuckle blooms. It's a feeling of freedom, so close to God and nature.

Dolly Parton

#48. One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

John Darnielle

#49. In the end, worship can never be a performance, something you're pretending or putting on. It's got to be an overflow of your heart ... Worship is about getting personal with God, drawing close to God.

Matt Redman

#50. Freedom, wholeness, and true success can only be found when you are living a praying life. That means walking so close to God that He can keep you away from danger and guide you where you need to go

Stormie O'martian

#51. When a stray animal crosses your path, it may be as close to God as you're going to get in this lifetime.

Kinky Friedman

#52. Kuisl knew from his own agonizing interrogations that people could bear a lot of pain if only their beliefs were strong, if they felt close to God, or if, like Kuisl, they were firmly convinced of their own innocence.

Anonymous

#53. It seems to me that I have greater peace and am close to God when I am not "trying to be a contemplative," or trying to be anything special, but simply orienting my life fully and completely towards what seems to be required of a man like me at a time like this.

Thomas Merton

#54. Life is such good thing, you learn and at the same time you get close to god the most precious love. I love you god!

Diana Flores

#55. My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.

Ziggy Marley

#56. The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.

Cato The Younger

#57. It's best not to depend on the gray haired. We're too close to God to rely on,

Nadia Hashimi

#58. The vibrations on the air are the breath of God speaking to man's soul. Music is the language of God. We musicians are as close to God as man can be. We hear his voice, we read his lips, we give birth to the children of God, who sing his praise. That's what musicians are.

Stephen J. Rivele

#59. Learning to desire God's will is not something we can accomplish by resolve and willpower. It occurs only when we live so close to God's heart that the rhythm of our own heartbeat comes to reflect the divine pulse

David G. Benner

#60. My Christmas prayer is that I would remain close to God, and He close to me. With all the suffering in the world today, there is the temptation to fall to fear ... we need to be near the Lord.. we need the Hope of Christmas.

Don Moen

#61. And although God is always close, if you don't pray, you will never manage to feel His presence.

Paulo Coelho

#62. In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.

Henri Nouwen

#63. feel that God was so very close, so very concerned with my particular life, so very ready to protect and to love. Always nearby. Always listening. Always leading. But

Lisa Wingate

#64. I just feel that God gave me a certain gift, and that was to go out, do storytelling and be an actor. And my responsibility with that gift is to do the best job possible and to re-create real life.

Eric Close

#65. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself; my existence depends on the nearness and the presence of God.

Meister Eckhart

#66. I am very close to HIM, sometimes I think I am HIM, with my mood is the weather,bright and sunny forever.

Santosh Kalwar

#67. Humility is a virtue that one can find, in which God in heaven rejoices ,and in His love he enfolds you, close to his heart He does bind.

Henrietta Newton Martin

#68. Many times, we miss out on God's best because we give up too soon. We don't realize how close we are to victory.

Joel Osteen

#69. The eternal God asks a favor of his bride: "Hold me close to your heart, close as locket or bracelet fits." No matter whether we walk or stand still, eat or drink, we should at all times wear the golden locket "Jesus" upon our heart.

Henry Suso

#70. What is truly arresting about our kind is better captured in the story of the Tower of Babel, in which humanity, speaking a single language, came so close to reaching heaven that God himself felt threatened.

Steven Pinker

#71. 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

#72. As Einstein said, God does not play dice with the universe; everything is interconnected and has a meaning. That meaning may remain hidden nearly all the time, but we always know we are close to our true mission on earth when what we are doing is touched with the energy of enthusiasm.

Paulo Coelho

#73. Every time you close another door - be it the door of immediate satisfaction, the door of distracting entertainment, the door of busyness, the door of guilt and worry, or the door of self-rejection - you commit yourself to go deeper into your heart and thus deeper into the heart of God.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#74. You said 'God is cruel' the way a person who's lived his whole life on Tahiti might say 'Snow is cold'. You knew, but you didn't understand." He stepped close to David and put his palms on the boy's cold cheeks. "Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?

Stephen King

#75. The only God who can lead you out of trouble when you are pursuing your dreams is the one who gave you that assignment. Neglecting him from your plans is tantamount to commitment of suicide.

Israelmore Ayivor

#76. The first time it felt really dangerous, like the sort of thing you had to lock the doors and close the curtains on because if anybody saw you, God would strike you down with a thunderbolt. But I took to it like a duck to water.

Jamie Muir

#77. My dad doesn't like religion much, but I grew up very close to the Baptist tradition. God isn't this distant thing. God is right here with you all the time. He's your buddy, and you can talk about everything.

Lucy Alibar

#78. When we pray, it's the Holy Spirit Who makes the divine presence real to our spirits, and then we seem to 'feel close' to a living God. We are spiritually overwhelmed by divine glory.

Chris Oyakhilome

#79. Closing my eyes and holding still. It's the end if I get mad or scream. It's close to a prayer. Hate is not for humans. Judgment lies with God. That's what I learned from my Arabic brothers and sisters.

Kenji Goto

#80. Let us affectionately love His angels as counselors and defenders appointed by the Father and placed over us. They are faithful; they are prudent; they are powerful; Let us only follow them, let us remain close to them, and in the protection of the God of heaven let us abide.

Bernard Of Clairvaux

#81. Dude, want to give me a little room here?" "No. I like being close to you." Detective Johnson ran one long finger slowly down Day's chest. "Well fuckin' unlike it." They both jumped at the sound of God's gruff voice. God

A.E. Via

#82. Close and difficult to realize is the god, but where danger abounds, grows what saves.

Friedrich Holderlin

#83. To be more precise about it, it is neither close nor open-mindedness but wisdom, discernment, and a pure heart that God wants.

Criss Jami

#84. When you trust the Lord God to give you the next step, when you wait in humility upon Him, *He* will open the doors or close them, and you'll get to rest and relax until He says, 'Go.

Charles R. Swindoll

#85. Certainly it is a blessing to have three beautiful kids who are all healthy. God put them here for me to nurture and bring them up and try to keep as close to right as I can. So it's a blessing. It's a big responsibility, but at the same time it's an honor.

Faith Evans

#86. God does not remove us from all harm; He uses harm to move us close to Him.

Dillon Burroughs

#87. The religion of Christ will unite in close brotherhood all who accept its teachings. It was the mission of Jesus to reconcile men to God, and thus to one another.

Ellen G. White

#88. Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit. We should not listen to those who like to affirm that the voice of the people is the voice of God, for the tumult of the masses is truly close to madness.

Alcuin

#89. We enjoy the sense of God's presence in the midst of suffering here and now. I have talked to people who are experiencing deep pain or severe difficulties, and they have said, I feel God is so close to me.

Billy Graham

#90. Why is the truth, it would seem, revealed to some and not to others? Is there a special organ for receiving revelation from God? Yes, though usually we close it and do not let it open up: God's revelation is given to something called a loving heart.

Seraphim Rose

#91. There is no secret formula
only a life committed to a close walk with God.

Dillon Burroughs

#92. I consider it an indispensible duty to close this last solemn act of my official life by commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God and those who have the superintendence of them into his Holy keeping.

George Washington

#93. Your better life is as close and as easy as making the choice to pick up your Bible each day, open it up, and let God speak to you.

Elizabeth George

#94. However softly we speak, God is so close to us that he can hear us; nor do we need wings to go in search of him, but merely to seek solitude and contemplate him within ourselves, without being surprised to find such a good Guest there.

John Of The Cross

#95. Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

Douglas MacArthur

#96. People who don't know the true character of God - who don't believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger - can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

Joyce Meyer

#97. When we choose to love, or to allow our minds to be one with God, then life is peaceful. When we turn away from love, the pain sets in. And whether we love, or close our hearts to love, is a mental choice we make, every moment of every day.

Marianne Williamson

#98. God must have said, "I know what I'll do, I'll send my Love right down there where they are. And I'll send it as a tiny baby, so they'll have to touch it, and they'll have to hold it close."

Gloria Gaither

#99. Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business.

S. Truett Cathy

#100. While we're looking up to see the rainbow - God's promises - we're ignoring floodwaters rising. While we're looking down to see how close we can get to the edge of the world without being trapped by Satan, we're taking our eyes off of Christ.

Billy Graham