Top 100 God Intimacy Quotes

#1. Aloneness can lead to loneliness. God's preventative for loneliness is intimacy - meaningful, open, sharing relationships with one another. In Christ we have the capacity for the fulfiling sense of belonging which comes from intimate fellowship with God and with other believers.

Neil T. Anderson

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#2. J.R.R. Tolkien told a questioning correspondent, life's purpose is to know, praise, and thank God.

Philip Zaleski

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#3. Intimacy is a key to greater spiritual authority and power. We need to grow in intimacy to be able to demonstrate God's Will on earth "as it is in heaven" effectively. To the degree that His presence and glory influence us, we will influence those around us.

Paul Yadao

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#4. Meditation is like giving a hug to our ourselves, getting in touch whith that awesome reality in us. While meditating we feel a deep sense of intimacy with God, a love that is inexplicable.

Paramahansa Yogananda

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#5. Preaching reveals God in action here and now
for ME.

Eugene H. Peterson

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#6. Heart-to-heart journaling is a dialogue with God where both you and God are talking and you are recording it on paper. Heart-to-heart journaling is simply writing out your thoughts to God and what you sense to be His answer or response to you.

Linda Boone

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#7. True intimacy with God always brings humility.

Beth Moore

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#8. A deeper intimacy with God sharpens our awareness of sin, which causes a stronger need for grace and a freer offering of mercy.

Alisa Hope Wagner

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#9. As we grow into maturity in Christ our distinctiveness is accentuated, not blunted. General directions, useful as they are, don't take into account the details that face us as holiness takes root in the particular social and personal place we are planted.

Eugene H. Peterson

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#10. There can never be intimacy if [someone] is always trying to pay God back or work hard enough to be worthy.

Francis Chan

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#11. PERFECTION, OF COURSE, is a cruel god. It requires the kind of absolute devotion and daily sacrifice that is the sworn enemy of personal emotion and intimacy with others, even - and maybe especially - one's loyal ladywife.

James Dodson

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#12. Unlike mere action, prayer is not subject to immediate evaluation or verification. If we are addicted to "results" we will quickly lose interest in prayer.

Eugene H. Peterson

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#13. To obey the commands of Scripture can finally become a delight when we see that the reasons almost always center around God's love and provision for us in Christ.

Matt Chandler

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#14. The Spirit of God is jealous over us; He doesn't want superficial fellowship, but genuine intimacy.

John Bevere

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#15. God's purpose for marriage is for a husband and wife to experience a love relationship, where they passionately pursue each other daily, where the ups and downs draw them closer together, a place where true intimacy thrives.

Jennifer Smith

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#16. Everything we do for God will be the overflow of intimacy with God.

Dan Baumann

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#17. Holy desire can be learned. All prayer is part work and part rest.

Jen Pollock Michel

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#18. We say we long for intimacy with God and others, and yet we structure our lives so that this becomes impossible. One might think we are avoiding intimacy, that maybe we really like our finely managed lives just the way they are.

Mark Galli

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#19. Dear God, teach me to be careless.

Hanif Kureishi

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#20. Prayer is a walk with God ... We can minister to the Lord as a group but I'll tell you one thing about it, you'll never have that intimacy of ministering to the Lord and worshiping Him with a group that you'll have in your own individual life.

Kenneth E. Hagin

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#21. Intimacy in all human relationships - especially with God - can occur only as vulnerability and inadequacy are owned.

Belden C. Lane

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#22. Many think Jesus came to earth so you and I can have a special kind of spiritual experience and then go merrily along, as long as we pray and read our Bibles and develop intimacy with the unseen God but ignore the others-oriented life of justice and love and peace that Jesus embodied.

Scot McKnight

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#23. Perhaps you have been ensnared by a sinful habit that you will not abandon, and your guilt is so overwhelming you are ashamed to approach Christ. Whatever the reason for your broken intimacy with God, there is good news. Jesus waits to embrace you now in the arms of unconditional, divine love.

Charles Stanley

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#24. Intimacy with God is to be preferred above material wealth.

Max Anders

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#25. Intimacy with God is not experienced through monolog prayers but through reflective listening as well as earnest petitioning.

Gary Rohrmayer

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#26. He had been present in their minds not as a man but as an idea.

Barbara W. Tuchman

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#27. The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust - not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God.

Brennan Manning

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#28. Salvation is the creation of new desires, not just new goodies.

John Piper

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#29. Will You help me hear the song You're singing over all this noise?

Steven Curtis Chapman

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#30. Even though every identity marker I have can be taken from me, the grace and peace of the Trinity overflows into the life of the believer.

Matt Chandler

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#31. As God's beloved, I live in the bliss knowing that my soul is never separated from Him, for I learn to know Her in all that I see. God dissolved my mind-my separation. I cannot describe now my intimacy with Him.

Teresa Of Avila

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#32. If you truly desire intimacy with your Father and Jesus, you must be willing to do what is the very heart of intimacy: share who you really are with Him - all your innermost thoughts and feelings.

Linda Boone

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#33. The central significance of prayer is not in the things that happen as results, but in the deepening intimacy and unhurried communion with God at His central throne of control in order to discover a sense of God's need in order to call on God's help to meet that need.

Edward McKendree Bounds

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#34. Intimacy with God is that I can come in with the honesty of my heart, tell Him how much I'm hurting.

Beth Moore

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

Jared Brock

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#36. Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source.

Bill Johnson

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#37. Again, our marriage problems are not really marriage problems. They are heart problems. They are God problems. Our lack of intimacy with God causes a void that we try to fill with the frailest of substitutes. Like wealth or pleasure. Like fame or respect. Like people. Like marriage.

Francis Chan

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#38. Once the joy of intimacy with God has been experienced, life becomes unbearable without it.

J. Oswald Sanders

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#39. It has always been dangerous to institutionalize hope, and we no longer live in a society in which we will be allowed to institutionalize memory.

Harold Bloom

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#40. So highly revered was commingle, that the Jews called him "the beauty of the Law".

Beth Moore

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#41. No heart is as whole as a broken heart, and no faith is as solid as a wounded faith. Elie Wiesel

John Ortberg

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#42. Soaking is also positioning yourself for an encounter with God, to be with Him. You do the positioning, He does the encounter.

Linda Boone

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#43. The purpose of prayer is not for the disciple to give information to God. The purpose of prayer is intimacy with God.

David Platt

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#44. Joyful intimacy with God is the great power source of the kingdom of God.

Mike Bickle

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#45. The lasting value of our public service for God is measured by the depth of the intimacy of our private times of fellowship and oneness with Him.

Oswald Chambers

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#46. Soaking" seems like a crazy word in an intimacy book. Yet that is exactly what you want to do in your relational time with Him, you want to "soak in and soak up" His presence, "soak in and soak up" His love.

Linda Boone

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#47. Down deep in His innermost soul Christ carried an inexhaustible treasury of refined and heavenly joy.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#48. Faith is the angelic messenger between the soul and the Lord Jesus in glory.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#49. 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

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#50. Let us labour to feel what an evil thing this is-little love to our own dying Saviour, little joy in our precious Jesus, little fellowship with the Beloved!

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#51. I'm nineteen tree rings and mashed acorns stop up my veins when I can't clot. Oh god, you beautiful person, I'll let you lick the salt off of my tattoos as if they were wounds, wounds made of ink and stories.

Taylor Rhodes

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#52. We are summoned not only to intimacy but to take possession of our very oneness with the Son of God in the inner life of the Trinity in the communication of the very Love of Father and Son, the Most Holy Spirit. This is what centering prayer is about.

M. Basil Pennington

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#53. A servile spirit you have nothing to do with: you are not a slave, but a child; and now, inasmuch as you are a beloved child, you are bound to obey your Father's faintest wish, the least intimation of His will.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#54. God is our example in parenting.

Gary Chapman

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#55. There is no balm in Gilead, but there is balm in God. There is no physician among the creatures, but the Creator is Jehovah-rophi.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#56. You will find it a stronghold in the day of trial to plead your adoption. You have no rights as a subject, you have forfeited them by your treason; but nothing can forfeit a child's right to a father's protection.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#57. Faith is the road, but communion with Jesus is the well from which the pilgrim drinks.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#58. The only freedom that lasts comes from pursuing what we want when we want what we ought.

John Piper

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#59. If the Gospel of Jesus is relational, that is, if our brokenness will be fixed not by our understanding of theology but by God telling us who we are, then this would require a kind of intimacy of which only Heaven knows.

Donald Miller

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#60. What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.

Monica Baldwin

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#61. Bonhoeffer said it's not about hero worship, but intimacy with God.

Jan Karon

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#62. Creativity as Divine intimacy flows through us and is bigger than we are, urging us to go to the edge and grow larger. And our growth in turn delights God. "God is delighted to watch your soul enlarge," says Eckhart.

Matthew Fox

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#63. We believe more readily in the abstract application of God's promises than we do in their application to us personally.

Matt Chandler

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#64. Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#65. God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewing) needle - and my heart and thoughts.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

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#66. A faithful dependent, I overlook his folly.

Charles Dickens

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#67. The world is not looking for Stepford-type Christians. People are tired of pretense. We struggle with failures; we long for intimacy. So why are we feigning perfection before God and one another.

Sheila Walsh

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#68. It is precisely in times of spiritual dryness that we must hold on to our spiritual discipline so that we can grow into new intimacy with God.

Henri Nouwen

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#69. If someone asked you what the greatest good on this earth is, what would you say? An epic surf session? Financial security? Health? Meaningful, trusting friendships? Intimacy with your spouse? Knowing that you belong? The greatest good on this earth is God. Period. God's one goal for us is Himself.

Francis Chan

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#70. See, loving heart, how He delights in you. When you lean your head on His bosom, you not only receive, but you give Him joy; when you gaze with love upon His all-glorious face, you not only obtain comfort, but impart delight.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#71. A fair vision had welcomed him in this land of disease.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#72. Theology is a means to enjoying and worshiping God, or it is useless.

John Piper

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#73. When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.

Charles Stanley

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#74. Emptiness is only a disguise for an intimacy of God's, that God's silence, the eerie stillness, is filled by the Word without words, by Him who is above all names, by Him who is all in all. And his silence is telling us that He is here.

Karl Rahner

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#75. Some Christians see the biblical teaching on homosexuality as reflecting the culture and times in which the Bible was written and not reflecting God's eternal perspective on homosexual people. Others believe these scriptures represent God's timeless will for how human beings practice intimacy.

Adam Hamilton

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#76. Intimacy with God is what determines our exploits

Sunday Adelaja

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#77. God's desire is to not only have you experience His love, but to totally overwhelm you with His love. To have you experience it to overflowing. To have you sense, feel, taste, and touch His love for you. He really wants you to experience Him!

Linda Boone

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#78. It is the heaven-born instinct of a gracious soul to seek shelter from all ills beneath the wings of Jehovah. A hypocrite, when afflicted by God, resents the infliction, and, like a slave, would run from the Master who has scourged him

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#79. Our intimacy with God broadens our influence on earth

Sunday Adelaja

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

Charles R. Swindoll

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#81. Everything in Scripture is either preparation for the Gospel, presentation of the Gospel, or participation in the Gospel.

Dave Harvey

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#82. Worldlings pray to the Lord in times of need, when it serves their turn. They cry to Him in trouble, but forsake Him in prosperity.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#83. Prayer is a way of language practiced in the presence of God in which we become more than ourselves while remaining ourselves.

Eugene H. Peterson

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#84. Become a man or woman of prayer...Let your heart and mind be kept close to the principal calling of your life, which is to hunger and thirst after God and His righteousness...Let the thoughts and intents of your heart be shaped and guided by time spent in His presence.

Ravi Zacharias

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#85. God is a person [in Christ]. A person can be known only by personal understanding, not impersonal understanding. Personal understanding takes place through love, caring, willingness, intimacy, and relationship.

Peter Kreeft

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#86. Private worship excites us for public worship.

Matt Chandler

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#87. True intimacy - sharing who you are, the very deepest part of you - with Him. God wants to listen to who you are.

Linda Boone

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#88. Inside marriage, those feelings are pure. God wouldn't order us to be fruitful and multiply if He didn't want us to share intimacy. It fosters a special closeness.

Cathy Marie Hake

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#89. It is hard to hear God, but it is even harder not to hear God. The pain one brings upon oneself by living outside of evident reality is a greater and longer-lasting pain than the brief pain of facing it head on.

Richard Rohr

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#90. Religiosity has deprived us of our intimacy with God.

Sunday Adelaja

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#91. The battle of prayer is against two things in the earthlies: wandering thoughts and lack of intimacy with God's character as revealed in His word. Neither can be cured at once, but they can be cured by discipline.

Oswald Chambers

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#92. The enemy works overtime to keep us in shame. He knows if he can keep us in shame, he can minimize our intimacy with God.

Mike Bickle

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#93. One of the side effects of losing intimacy with God is that at some point we stop doing ministry out of imagination and we begin doing it out of memory.

Bill Johnson

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#94. We don't need to pray to prove that we're properly pious or really serious. Instead, we pray because we are completely assured, and because the Father hears our prayers because they come to Him through the lips of His dear Son.

Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

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#95. Praise is the 'breath' which gives us life, because it is intimacy with God, an intimacy that grows through daily praise.

Pope Francis

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#96. A life of intimacy with God is characterized by joy.

Oswald Chambers

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#97. Prayer is the forerunner of mercy.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#98. God's Fatherly prerogative, is a kingly attribute so sweetly veiled in love, that the King's crown is forgotten in the King's face, and His sceptre becomes, not a rod of iron, but a silver sceptre of mercy - the sceptre indeed seems to be forgotten in the tender hand of Him who wields it.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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#99. Romance depends upon imperfect knowledge.

Harold Bloom

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#100. Mystical experiences do not necessarily supply new ideas to the mind, rather, they transform what one believes into what one knows, converting abstract concepts, such as divine love, into vivid, personal, realities.

R.M. Jones

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