Top 100 Closer To God Quotes
#1. It did something to the temporal lobe, one of the circuits involved in religious experience. It was supposed to put people closer to God. It did that. It also made them slaves.
Ramez Naam
#2. What brings you closer to God is being in service to others. I think any religion or spiritual way of life will indicate that service to others will lead to a connection with a higher power.
Steve-O
#3. Holiness always exalts a person and brings him closer to God
Sunday Adelaja
#4. Love can heal. Love can renew. Love can make us safe. Love can inspire us with its power. Love can bring us closer to God.
Deepak Chopra
#5. The real reason for grounding ourselves in the truth that we are made for more is "so that you may know him better." The more we operate in the truth of who we are and the reality that we were made for more, the closer to God we'll become.
Lysa TerKeurst
#6. Man is closer to God according to his existence in grace than he is according to his existence in nature.
Thomas Aquinas
#7. There is nothing noble about suffering except the love and forgiveness with which we meet it. Many believe that if they are suffering they are closer to God, but I have met very few who could keep their heart open to their suffering enough for that to be true. (124)
Stephen Levine
#8. Because God is with you all the time, no place is any closer to God than the place where you are right now.
Rick Warren
#9. But the more you make the choice to live above your feelings, to trust God instead of what you may feel like doing, the stronger your faith becomes. It's not about being perfect. We will always been on a journey of growing closer to God.
Tim Tebow
#10. O this world is beautiful because of you! To love somebody means that we're closer to God.
Joseph Goebbels
#11. Prayer feeds the soul - as blood is to the body, prayer is to the soul - and it brings you closer to God.
Mother Teresa
#12. With every choice we move either closer to God or farther away from him.
Peter Kreeft
#13. I have so many things to work on, and so many ways that I fail. But that's what grace is all about. And I constantly wake up every morning trying to get better, trying to improve, trying to walk closer to God.
Tim Tebow
#14. Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.
Cyril Cusack
#15. Despite all my efforts, I still can't honestly say that I feel closer to God and to myself.
Paulo Coelho
#16. Suffering will get you great footage. I don't know about closer to God. Although there have been times when I've suffered to the point where I think I might be about to meet him.
Johnny Knoxville
#17. I think women are closer to God than we are. They walk right out there like they know what they're doing.
Barry Hannah
#18. Being on a mission-not thinking about myself and focusing on serving other people-is what brought me closer to God than anything else.
David Archuleta
#19. God always has a plan. This isn't his fault. This is a test, something designed to help you grow closer to God. And. I know, somehow, God will use it.
C.B. Cook
#20. After every temptation you will be either closer to God or further from Him.
Jason Evert
#21. Growing closer to God has a whole lot less to do with any action we might take and a whole lot more to do with positioning our hearts toward His. It's what I call intentionally positioning ourselves to experience God - and the posture we are to take
Lysa TerKeurst
#22. Love is as simple as the absence of self given to another. God, when invited, fills the void of any unrequited love; hence loving is how one is drawn closer to God no matter its most horrific repercussions.
Criss Jami
#23. You can't make yourself closer to God by hating someone else, whether you believe it's righteous anger or not. The relationship between Soul - which is you - and God is one of love. And where there's pure love, there is no room for anger of any kind.
Harold Klemp
#24. We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#25. When you're called to Revival & Awakening you walk closer to God and most people won't understand your calling so save your breathe you don't have to explain yourself
Joe Joe Dawson
#26. Suffering often draws us closer to God. Instead of being a sign of God's punishment or distance, suffering can purify us, lead us into the heart of God, and transform our souls.
Allen R. Hunt
#27. One moment of prayer, of weak worship, confused contrition, tepid thanksgiving, or pitiful petition will bring us closer to God than all the books of theology in the world.
Peter Kreeft
#28. Anything that ties us to the world rather than drawing us closer to God is worldly.
Francena H. Arnold
#29. You probably can't get much closer to God than serving a congregation 24/7. At the same time, there's a different kind of closeness in this present life I have in which I have much more freedom to come and go and to engage some of the silence and stillness and solitude that I was missing before.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#30. Getting closer to God might mean getting told to love someone I don't even like, or to give away even more of my money. It might mean letting some idea or dream that is dear to me get ripped away.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#31. He is indivisible from the Father and the Son, so that if you were to be suddenly transferred to heaven itself you wouldn't be any closer to God than you are now, for God is already here.
A.W. Tozer
#32. Marriage is a team effort. Grow closer to each other as you grow closer to God.
Jim George
#33. That's because like everyone else on the planet, you believed that time would teach you to grow closer to God. But time doesn't teach; it merely brings us a sense of weariness and of growing older.
Paulo Coelho
#34. True, there was a vague assumption that doing so would bring me closer to God, but then who was God when he was at home? And why did he keep losing it with his chosen people, when he could easily have changed his mind, and picked a more co-operative bunch?
John Cleese
#35. Dare to love and to be a real friend. The love you give and receive is a reality that will lead you closer and closer to God as well as those whom God has given you to love.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#36. Being a witness of His love, by loving my neighbour, by being one with my family, by helping my colleagues at work, is a way of living which I know draws me closer to God.
George Calleja
#37. No religion was superior because they all brought people closer to God
Mitch Albom
#38. Even the devils are theists. I am of all people one of the least qualified to judge, but I do believe that some atheists are closer to God than are some theists. With Him, it is better to be distant in the mind but near in the heart than it is to be distant in the heart but near in the mind.
Criss Jami
#39. The desire of the people should be the major instrument used to draw them closer to God
Sunday Adelaja
#40. I've learned through experience that faith moves mountains, hope moves choices, and, more importantly, that love moves you a step closer to God.
Maribel C. Pagan
#41. We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.
Francis Chan
#42. I sometimes say animals are closer to God than humans. They are closer to the source. The humans are more lost in the mind forms. Being is more obscured to the human because of the overlay of ego and mental formation.
Eckhart Tolle
#43. When a hunter is in a tree stand with high moral values and with the proper hunting ethics and richer for the experience, that hunter is 20 feet closer to God.
Fred Bear
#44. Opportunities are always there for us to grow, opportunities are always there for us to come closer to each other & come closer to God; if we just look for them.
Radhanath Swami
#45. People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.
Dolly Parton
#46. You preach cleanliness,
so I try to keep my room clean,
but I feel no closer to God, and I guess that's okay
because he doesn't know
who he's fucking with anyway.
Kris Kidd
#47. If you get closer to God, He will become one with you, and your face will shine with His glory
Sunday Adelaja
#48. The holiness of love inspired ordinary men and women to act like angels. It lifted them on wings closer to God.
Nancy Holder
#50. Every day, I get closer to God. Every day, my will to do the right thing gets stronger.
DMX
#51. We can never live this [Christian] life on the highest plane unless we are continually growing and moving forward. You should be closer to God today in heart, soul, and body than at any other time so far in your life.
Billy Graham
#52. When mankind ascended to the stars, he came no closer to God.
Mitch Michaelson
#53. My life is not separate from my music, you know? It's not like a day job that I leave and go home. It's who I am as a person and how I am trying to grow, come closer to God, be a better person.
Matisyahu
#54. When the slugs penetrate, you feel a burning sensation,
Gettin closer to God in a tight situation.
Prodigy
#55. How liberating it must be to stop evading, questioning, or complaining about your trials and start embracing them as opportunities to draw closer to God, to realize that even if Jesus is all you have, He is enough
Colleen Carroll Campbell
#56. Believe that none of the effort you put into coming closer to God is ever wasted - even if in the end you don't achieve what you are striving for.
Nachman Of Breslov
#57. Anything that does not draw us closer to God takes us away from Him.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#58. I've seen the majestic beauty of nature and the overwhelming perfection of it. To me, there's nothing closer to God than that.
Cote De Pablo
#59. My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.
Ram Dass
#60. I'm from Texas ... the bigger the hair, the closer to God!
Lilly Ghalichi
#61. Accept sufferings with smile,as they are purifier and bring closer to God
Kishore Bansal
#62. I am thankful for all the hard times I've been through and all the tears I've cried because that has put me as closer to God and made me the strong woman I am today!
Angela Merkel
#63. "His words moved people closer to God." I'd be happy if that's what people said about me at the end of the day. It's always been my calling.
Brian Bird
#64. When you bring all your doubts and fears to God, you'll find the reason to trust Him. And as you trust Him, you will draw closer to Him. Best of all, no one who draws closer to God can possibly remain unchanged.
Pauline Creeden
#65. Making films has been kind of my way of getting closer to God.
Corbin Bernsen
#66. Challenges, when you're in a tumultuous situation, are an opportunity to grow, an opportunity to get closer to God, an opportunity to find and kind of reform yourself, and to figure out what really matters and what your priorities are.
Essence Atkins
#68. When you get a hankering to talk or complain about what you gave up for Lent, replace that hankering by speaking the word of God. For all the times you would have done the activity that you gave up for Lent, replace it by reading the word of God. Christians should always be drawing closer to God.
Monica Johnson
#70. The blood of the heroes is closer to God than the ink of the philosophers and the prayers of the faithful.
Julius Evola
#71. Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.
Ram Dass
#72. The storms of life can be used for good in our lives if we let them drive our spirits higher and closer to God.
Roy Lessin
#73. Bitterness never draws us closer to God. Bitterness is a nonproductive, toxic emotion, usually resulting from resentment over unmet needs.
Craig Groeschel
#74. The absence of God's answer is a clear answer; it speaks of the need to get closer to God
Sunday Adelaja
#75. All great art commences with a vision, and perhaps it may be that the vision is closer to God than that which is ultimately created by the artist's brush. There will always be human flaws in the execution. Only in the mind can the artist achieve true perfection.
John Connolly
#76. Over the years as I went through a lot more things, I've gotten closer and closer to God as far as praying a lot more, being into the Word.
LaDainian Tomlinson
#77. This is a book that looks at how we can use the challenges, joys, struggles, and celebrations of marriage to draw closer to God and to grow in Christian character.
Gary L. Thomas
#78. Each truth we find (in life) leads us a step closer to God.
Donald L. Hicks
#79. The bigger the hair the closer to God was not just a saying in the northern panhandle, it was like the eleventh commandment: Thou shalt have big hair.
Rachel Gibson
#80. It is not easy to be at peace in today's troubled world. Necessarily peace is a personal acquisition. ... It can be attained only through maintaining constantly a repentant attitude, seeking forgiveness of sins both large and small, and thus coming ever closer to God.
Spencer W. Kimball
#81. Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.
Kailash Satyarthi
#82. Gamache enjoyed going to churches for their music and the beauty of the language and the stillness. But he felt closer to God in his Volvo.
Louise Penny
#83. I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does.
Samantha Morton
#84. The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love is meant to renew. Love is meant to bring us closer to God.
Deepak Chopra
#85. Given a choice between a folly and a sacrament, one should always choose the folly - because we know a sacrament will not bring us closer to god and there's always the chance that a folly will.
Desiderius Erasmus
#86. To climb ever closer to God is not to move away from our troubled and troubling neighbors, but closer to them.
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
#87. No matter how glorious the perception, no matter how gratifying the event,nothing is ever truly fulfilling until you draw closer to God and enter the mystical temple God placed within you.
Kristen Johnson Ingram
#88. T]here is no other purpose of my existence except to know, love and get closer to God. This is the one and only reason why I was created. And this is the most essential realization, as it defines everything else I do or believe. It defines all things around me, and everything I experience in life.
Yasmin Mogahed
#89. Gospel music allows us to become closer to God and closer to each other.
Marvin Sapp
#90. In the midst of chaos I draw closer to God. I've learned to trust in him no matter what. I'm so thankful for the lessons he has and will teach me. Even when I don't always get it the first time.
Amanda Penland
#91. He entered the elevator and together they moved closer to god
Philip K. Dick
#93. Darkness is the only path to light. It is not our wonderful gifts that make us closer to God: it's using our garbage to transform ourselves. This is the key that unlocks the door that opens to God.
Yehuda Berg
#94. She brought me closer to God than ten
summers of Vacation Bible School.
LaToya Hankins
#95. The reverend insists we occupy the first pew. He rang us up not long ago, tipsy
he's a tippler
saying that our faces brought him closer to God. And it's true, we're terribly good-looking people.
David Sedaris
#97. The movement in our relationship to God is always from God to us. Always. We can't, through our piety or goodness, move closer to God. God is always coming near to us. Most especially in the Eucharist and in the stranger.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#98. If we do not cling to riches, selfishness or greed-then I believe we are getting closer to God.
Daniel Ortega
#99. Physics filled me with awe, put me in touch with a sense of original causes. Physics brought me closer to God. That feeling stayed with me throughout my years in science. Whenever one of my students came to me with a scientific project, I asked only one question, 'Will it bring you nearer to God?'
Isidor Isaac Rabi
#100. Loving someone deeply brings you closer to God. It is a humble admission of weakness, through which God's strength is made perfect.
Lillian Katungwa
