Draw Near To God Quotes

#1. When we're in the middle of a difficult time, we have to speak against that lie that says, "God is not here." We have to draw near to God.

Max Lucado

#2. Let us love silence till the world is made to die in our hearts. Let us always remember death, and in this thought draw near to God in our heart - and the pleasures of this world will have our scorn.

Isaac Jogues

#3. Remember it is the heart and not the body, which strives to draw near to God. By heart I do not mean the flesh perceived by the senses, but that secret thing which is sometimes expressed by spirit, and sometimes by soul.

Al-Ghazali

#4. But it is good for me to draw near to God; I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all Your works." Psalm 73:28

Adam Houge

#5. It is impossible to draw near to God without sorrows, without which human righteousness cannot remain unchanged ... If you desire virtue, than give yourself to every affliction, for afflictions produce humility. If someone abides in virtue without afflictions, the door of pride is opened to him.

Isaac Of Nineveh

#6. The law perfected nothing, but a better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God. Hebrews 7:19

Beth Moore

#7. Whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him (Hebrews 11:6, emphasis added). Call that payoff contentment, satisfaction, peace, or excitement - it all adds up to one word: happiness

Randy Alcorn

#8. 25Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost [2] k those who draw near to God l through him, since he always lives m to make intercession for them.

Anonymous

#9. Ask God for what you want, but you cannot ask if you are not asking for a right thing. When you draw near to God, you cease from asking for things."Your Father knows what things you have need of, before you ask him." Then, why ask? That you may get to know Him.

Oswald Chambers

#10. For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within'? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.

Florence Nightingale

#11. 6And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God m must believe that he exists and m that he rewards those who seek him.

Anonymous

#12. In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.

John Of The Cross

#13. Worship is not an external activity precipitated by the right environment. To worship in spirit is to draw near to God with an undivided heart. We must come in full agreement without hiding anything or disregarding His will.

Erwin W. Lutzer

#14. PSA73.28 But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.

Anonymous

#15. We can't always make life work. But we can always draw near to God. There is a different way to approach our problems. There is a NEW WAY to live.

Larry Crabb

#16. Is important that we get still to wait on God. And it is best that we get alone, preferably with our Bible outspread before us. Then if we will we may draw near to God and begin to hear Him speak to us in our hearts.

A.W. Tozer

#17. It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.

Henry David Thoreau

#18. God doesn't want to overwhelm us with a lot of theology in order to receive our healing. He keeps it simple. Nonetheless, there is great power to be found in these simple and easily implemented truths. The first of them is to "draw near to God and He will draw near to you" (James 4:8).

Dutch Sheets

#19. All you who draw near to serve God in prayer, learn to be like Him, meek, humble, and true of heart; do not let there be any deceitfulness or duplicity nor coldness in your soul.

John Of Kronstadt

#20. If God were to make a million lovely flowers in your image and plant them in a garden with you among them, I would still know you by your scent and by the feel of your petals and by the crazy way you lean towards my light whenever I draw near.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#21. Christmas is an invitation by God to say: Look what I've done to come near to you. Now draw near to me ... I want to be a friend.

Timothy Keller

#22. Draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you. Keep near to the fountain-head and with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.

Gardiner Spring

#23. This is the centre of the gospel - this is what the Garden of Gethsemane and Good Friday are all about - that God has done astonishing and costly things to draw us near.

John Piper

#24. When we ask God to draw near, what we're really asking is for Him to make us aware of Him.

Mike Donehey

#25. Perhaps the most shockingly transcendent thing about the God we worship is that He is pleased to stoop down to us, to draw near, to know us, love us, walk with us, and call us all by name.

R.C. Sproul Jr.

#26. Hence monastic prayer, especially meditation and contemplative prayer, is not so much a way to find God as a way of resting in him whom we have found, who loves us, who is near to us, who comes to us to draw us to himself.

Thomas Merton

#27. When we resist God, we draw near to Satan.

Beth Moore

#28. Anyone who truly walks with God, walks humbly. The closer we draw near to Him, the more we behold His majesty!

Beth Moore

#29. The light of God's presence in our lives is a purifying flame that will draw us near to Him.

Billy Graham

#30. Since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, 20by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, 21and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 22let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with

Anonymous

#31. When I don't know where to turn, You always draw me near; when I start to feel alone, I can feel Your presence here, reminding me of everything I ever need to have or be has already found a place somewhere inside of me.

Lisa Mischelle Wood

#32. God draws near to us in such a way as to draw us near to himself within the circle of his knowing of himself.

Thomas F. Torrance

#33. Today the heart of God is an open wound of love. He aches over our distance and preoccupation. He mourns that we do not draw near to Him. He grieves that we have forgotten Him. He weeps over our obsession with muchness and manyness. He longs for our presence.

Richard J. Foster

#34. The men that will change the colleges and seminaries here represented are the men that will spend the most time alone with God ... It takes time for the fires to burn. It takes time for God to draw near and for us to know that He is there. It takes time to assimilate His truth.

John Mott

#35. In Fellowship; alone To God, with Faith, draw near, Approach His Courts, besiege His Throne With all the power of Prayer.

Charles Wesley

#36. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. 8Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse

Scott Hahn