Quotes About Experiencing God

#1. Too often, preachers encourage us to worship Jesus, but Jesus simply invites us to follow him - his way of life, his way of experiencing God. We are invited to practice the spirituality of Jesus instead of a spirituality or religion about Jesus.

Preston Tama

#2. The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Alice Walker

#3. For the children of Israel, the essence of religion was experiencing God to the fullest during this lifetime, not merely preparing for the next.

Rachel Held Evans

#4. There's no higher dream than experiencing God as He moves through every circumstance of life to an eternal encounter with Himself where transformed people will enjoy perfectly loving community around Jesus Christ, the source of Perfect Love.

Larry Crabb

#5. It's not about finding ways to avoid God's judgment and feeling like a failure if you don't do everything perfectly. It's about fully experiencing God's love and letting it perfect you. It's not about being somebody you are not. It's about becoming who you really are.

Stormie O'martian

#6. Nothing this world has to offer can even compare to experiencing God's pleasure.

Andrew Wommack

#7. It is our nature to be strong and independent. Yet, there is no room for the ego in suffering. This stripping of my ego opens the doors to authentic relating to others. As I am drawn closer to others, I am experiencing God in the here and now.

Timothy J. Keller

#8. There is an essential connection between experiencing God, loving God, and trusting God. You will trust God only as much as you love him. And you will love him to the extent you have touched him, rather that he has touched you.

Brennan Manning

#9. As the years go by, I find myself experiencing God's extraordinary concern, consideration, healing, and what I call in my books, the divine therapy.

Thomas Keating

#10. I don't think we should give up on ritual. I don't think we should give up on any possible means of experiencing God.

Brian D. McLaren

#11. Sometimes an obstacle is placed in front of us by God for the purpose of upgrading our vision and experiencing our dream at a higher level. The obstacle can only be here by permission of God, so it has to help us become what He is seeing about us.

Graham Cooke

#12. I put away that stuffed God I had all stitched up with my human understandings and fears. God is less formulaic and quantifiable as he once used to be, but experiencing the reality of his love is infinitely better than dragging that other one around.

Jim Palmer

#13. This whole Christian theology thing is that god came down to experience life through his son. Well, how's he experiencing life if he doesn't get laid? Give me a break. And why would he not get laid, as he created the apparatus in the first place?

Tori Amos

#14. If you are experiencing confusion, pain, and suffering, it may be that God is working things out for you in his own way. It is most often the sovereign work of our God unfolding a master plan known only to him.

David Wilkerson

#15. He said, The main thing that you bring the church is the person that you become, and that's what everybody will see; that's what will get reproduced; that's what people will believe. Arrange your life so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.

Dallas Willard

#16. The real goal of Christianity is not to create a religion about God, but that we would actually know Him, experiencing firsthand the wonders and power of His incomparable life.

Francis Frangipane

#17. Trials are a part of life, but there is value in sometimes experiencing adversity which will test (and so strengthen) our faith and also build an understanding of God and ourselves.

Eric Ives

#18. When we root ourselves so that we are experiencing love on all levels - feeling it in our body and heart, accepting love, surrounded by love, generating love - then we are giving as well as receiving at the same time that we are connected to God.

Laura Lane

#19. We want gain without pain; we want the resurrection without going through the grave; we want life without experiencing death; we want a crown without going by way of the Cross. But in God's economy, the way up is down.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#20. Christian spirituality means living in the mature wholeness of the gospel. It means taking all the elements of your life - children, spouse, job, weather, possessions, relationships - and experiencing them as an act of faith. God wants all the material of our lives.

Eugene H. Peterson

#21. The single dynamic that helps people be most aware of God and most experiencing the fruit of the Spirit is gratitude.

John Ortberg

#22. How could sexuality be anything but God? It's the creation of life. Life is experiencing itself in endless forms.

Frederick Lenz

#23. If you feel empty, you are right on the verge of God's greatest blessing. Just seek His face. Should you be desperate and hurting and experiencing loss, remember that the Lord lifts up the downcast and casts down the proud. He will in His own good time turn your mourning into joy.

Timothy E. Crosby

#24. Thankful to see this day. Feeling God's love, experiencing His blessings & secure in His grace.

LaNina King

#25. But if you find yourself experiencing a desire to seek God, we have great news for you: God is already at work in you.

Henry T. Blackaby

#26. It is one thing to read about being filled with the Holy Spirit and quite another thing to experience the mighty infilling of the Holy Spirit that radically changes our life to a life of adoring wonder and amazement at the things of God. Reading and experiencing are two quite different things.

A.W. Tozer

#27. Devotional singing induces in you a desire for experiencing the truth, to glimpse the beauty that is God, to taste the bliss that is the Self. It encourages man to dive into himself and be genuinely his real Self.

Sathya Sai Baba

#28. Nothing in the Universe/God is ever lost or gained but simply a field of energy and matter in a constant state of flux. We are all part of one big energy organism expressing and experiencing itself.

Russell Anthony Gibbs

#29. So many commands in the Bible require obedience without us experiencing any conviction to obey them. That is when our faith is truly tested.

Alan De Jager

#30. To the degree you have experienced intimacy with God, you won't be afraid of death because you're experiencing the first tastes and promises of heaven in this world.

Richard Rohr

#31. Please listen carefully. The key for experiencing the flow of God's living water in your life is ... Obedience.

Brother Yun

#32. And when you provide love and compassion to your brothers and sisters, you yourself, are manifesting God. When you come to understand that our bodies are nurtured by food and rest, but our spirits and souls are nurtured by experiencing love and compassion, then you come to understand and know God.

Nick Bunick

#33. Nothing in or of this world measures up to the simple pleasure of experiencing the presence of God.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#34. Some people talk about "finding God," but that seemed like a severely inaccurate description of what I was experiencing. It felt more like God was finding me. He wasn't the lost one - I was. I

Jennifer Dukes Lee

#35. I discovered that being thankful and experiencing the power and presence of Jesus Christ are tightly entwined. As we practice thankfulness, we experience more of God's transforming grace, God's thereness.

Mark Buchanan

#36. You are the perfect creation of God. Don't allow you to be down. God is experiencing through you.

Amit Ray

#37. I didn't have a teen age at all. I didn't even look at boys, never mind ... then suddenly it was like, 'Oh my god!' So I made up for a lot of lost time very quickly. It was kind of bonkers. Working hard, partying hard - but also experiencing life, you know.

Anne-Marie Duff

#38. An enlightened society is one where all people - the rich and the poor, the literate and the illiterate, the black and the white, men and women - live happily as children of the same Lord. Thus experiencing the brotherhood of men under the fatherhood of God.

Pandurang Shastri Athavale

#39. The greatest tragedy is a life lived and died without knowing Father God intimately and experiencing His love personally.

Bob Parr

#40. 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

#41. I have learned that there's no way to open yourself to the experience of God while retaining your cool, your sense of ironic detachment.

Ken Wilson

#42. Refuse to be content with the knowledge of God. Insist on experiencing His presence.

John Paul Warren

#43. God is not ecstatic about the lack you are experiencing; He is not delightful over your failures, He is not happy about your stagnancy.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#44. The more you rely on intellectual and philosophical concepts of God, the more difficult it becomes to simply experience and enjoy the wonder of God.

Mac MacKenzie

#45. Experiencing something of the grace of God should always cause our self-perceived ideas about 'Who He is' and 'How He works' to pop.

Tristan Sherwin

#46. Meditation is listening to the song of the inner Soul, seeing the beauty of the inner Self, smelling the fragrance of the inner Spirit, experiencing the touch of the Divine inner energies and tasting the intense sweetness of the inner God.

Amit Ray

#47. Some theologians argue that one kind of grace is better than another, and that some people think they're experiencing "divine" grace when it's actually just "common."
To me, that's like bickering about what color God's eyes are. (They're hazel, in case you were wondering.)

Cathleen Falsani

#48. If a man is experiencing many trials, God often gives him a vision through dreams to strengthen his spirit

Sunday Adelaja

#49. There's no anger ever in a spiritual. There's always the dream of a hope of a better day coming. That God understands the troubles that I'm experiencing.

Jessye Norman

#50. It is one thing to say that the Lord is my Shepherd; it is quite another to be lost and have Him guide me home.

Sheila Walsh

#51. Realization of the absolute Truth - about God, Self and oneness between the two - leads to wisdom. Understanding and experiencing this oneness is purity, a state of life where one can dispel all doubts and fears

Gian Kumar

#52. The word "open" and the expression "opening her legs" were, on her lover's lips, charged with such uneasiness and power that she could never hear them without experiencing a kind of internal prostration, a sacred submission, as though a god, and not he, had spoken to her.

Pauline Reage

#53. These troubles and distresses you are experiencing in these waters are no indication that God has abandoned you. Rather, they are sent to test you to see whether or not you will recall the evidences of his past goodness and rely upon him in your present distresses.

John Bunyan

#54. I was experiencing all the success the entertainment industry has to offer, but I knew there had to be something more. It was sort of through that God prepared me to hear about His great plan.

Kirk Cameron

#55. I was at a picnic, and there were a lot of songwriters. I remember praying, 'God I wish you would give me a song.' About five minutes later, my ears popped, and I saw everybody in slow motion. Nobody knew what I was experiencing.

Andrae Crouch

#56. When people realize it is the living God you are presenting and not some idol that makes them feel good, they are going to turn on you, even people in your own family. There is a great irony here: proclaiming so much love, experiencing so much hate! But don't quit.

Eugene H. Peterson

#57. Newer and better ... healing isn't about getting back to the old, it's about going to that next level and experiencing what God has in store for you.

Heather Bixler

#58. God shows up powerfully when our worship is sincere and fervent in spite of whatever difficult circumstance we might be experiencing.

James MacDonald

#59. We cannot know healing without knowing sickness. We cannot know peace without knowing anxiety. We cannot know light without experiencing darkness. And we cannot believe in the redeeming work of God without seeing the brokenness he is at work in.

Katie Blackburn