Quotes About Our Relationship With God

#1. Our relationship with God broadens our opportunities and influence on earth

Sunday Adelaja

#2. For a group of people supposedly saved by grace, loved unconditionally, and secure in our relationship with Christ, we certainly carry a lot of guilt and baggage in our relationship with God.

Will Davis Jr.

#3. It is not easy to shut out the world, set aside a few minutes by yourself, and spend time in God's Word and prayer. But it is essential if we are to grow in our relationship with God and be strengthened for the battles ahead. Don't delay. Begin now to spend time alone with God every day.

Billy Graham

#4. Our relationship with God is not about doing right and not doing wrong, but it's simply about walking on this earth with the same One whom we walked with before we came to this earth! It's a continuum. It is, in itself, a part of aeternum!

C. JoyBell C.

#5. Our ability to accept life's difficult offerings is a testament of our relationship with God.

Scott Hildreth

#6. In our spiritual pilgrimage we see sins which mar our relationship with God, but beneath it is a commitment which seeks to move beyond to a higher life, based on wholehearted surrender to God.

Billy Graham

#7. Our problems sometimes show the degree of our relationship with God.

Paul Gitwaza

#8. To strengthen our relationship with God, we need some meaningful time alone with Him

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#9. Our relationship with God flows out of our love for God.

Christine Caine

#10. The determining factor in our relationship with God is not our past but Christ's past.

Timothy Keller

#11. . . . nothing should concern us more than our relationship with God;

Francis Chan

#12. My observation of Christendom is that most of us tend to base our relationship with God on our performance instead of on His grace.

Tullian Tchividjian

#13. Giving jump starts our relationship with God. It opens our fists so we can receive what God has for us.

Randy Alcorn

#14. Trials always change our relationship with God. Either they drive us to Him, or they drive us away from Him. The extent of our fear of Him and our awareness of His love for us determine in which direction we will move.

Jerry Bridges

#15. True obedience is the refusal to compromise in any regard our relationship with God, regardless of the consequences.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#16. Gratitude opens the door to faith and faith opens the door to our relationship with God.

Charles F. Glassman

#17. Freedom is not the ability to do anything we want, whenever we want. Rather, FREEDOM is the ability to live responsibly the truth of our relationship with God and with one another.

Pope John Paul II

#18. Religion, therefore - despite the correctness of its insistence that something needs to be done about our relationship with God - remains unqualified bad news: it traps us in a game we will always and everywhere lose.

Robert Farrar Capon

#19. What is most important to us? What do we love? What is most dear to us?2 We shouldn't be surprised that these questions get to the core of our being. They also point to where we are headed. All roads eventually lead to our relationship with God. Do we love what he loves? Is he most dear to us?

Edward T. Welch

#20. Our relationship with God and relationship with others are two sides of the same coin.

Peter Scazzero

#21. Our relationship with God is not contractual, so that we could fulfill the right conditions and it would have the desired results, as if our relationship with God resembled putting coins in a vending machine. It is a personal relationship, and such relationships involve freedom on both sides. Joel

John E. Goldingay

#22. Thing is, every place has its limitations and its benefits. And some children don't or can't follow the path of their siblings or the generations that came before them. Some traditions die, and that's okay. In the end, the only thing that counts is our relationship with God.

Beth Webb Hart

#23. Breathing is automatic for us. We need air to live, but we don't think about the process of getting it as we go about our day. We just breathe. That's how our relationship with God should be. Automatic. We don't think about needing to talk to God. It just happens, all day long.

Max Lucado

#24. Loving the world destroys our relationship with God, it denies our faith in God, and it discounts our future with God.

David Jeremiah

#25. The whole basis for our relationship with God is rooted and grounded in grace, in that which is not earned.

R.C. Sproul

#26. The sum of our relationship with God enables us to take the next step, climb the next mountain, and do the next part of our assignment.

Katy Kauffman

#27. Our relationship with God will never be right as long as our relationship with others is wrong.

Alistair Begg

#28. One of the voices that we struggle with inside is the voice of religion. Religion teaches us some very strict things about God and our relationship with God. Some religions teach us that we aren't worthy of having a personal relationship with God.

Echo Bodine

#29. In a relationship with God, our most secret places once thickly cloaked and meticulously hidden away now stand before us utterly and entirely exposed. And it may be that this dreaded fear is the single thing that keeps us an arm's length from God, and forever a single step away from His blessings.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#30. This life we have is a process of becoming holy. Though Christ is the redeemer, it's up to us to have a relationship with God. Without a relationship, we'll always be lacking and trying to find fulfillment in this world, and we know what the world offers can never satisfy our need.

T.K. Chapin

#31. To mend our own relationship with God, regaining God's favor after having once lost it, is beyond the power of any one of us. And one must see and bow to this before one can share the biblical faith in God's grace.

J.I. Packer

#32. Allowing God to charge our lives that we may empower people around us to live In a greater relationship with him.

David Walker

#33. The truth is God created us to have relationship with us. He wants to love us and take care of us, and He wants us to love Him. That's where our walk with Christ has to start.

Joyce Meyer

#34. Why would the God of the universe want to be submitted to me?'
Because we want you to join us in our circle of relationship. I don't want slaves to my will; I want brothers and sisters who will share life with me.

Wm. Paul Young

#35. From Genesis to Revelation, holy text is all about relationships and the limitless flavors of those relationships. It is the duty of mankind to tap into our women's unique talents
their genius for 'relationships.'
pg vii

Michael Ben Zehabe

#36. You must never sacrifice your relationship with God for the sake of a relationship with another person.

Charles Stanley

#37. Only a faithful and intense relationship with God makes it possible to get out of our own closedness and proclaim the Gospel with parrhesia. Without prayer our acts are empty and our proclamation has no soul; it is not inspired by the Spirit.

Pope Francis

#38. God's love means that our Creator desires to have a relationship with us. God's holiness prevents him from having fellowship with us and, instead, demands the outpouring of his anger against us.

Robert Jeffress

#39. Money can come and go, and fame comes and goes. Peace of mind and a relationship with God is far more important, so this is the precedent that we've set in our lives. The bottom line is, we all die, so Jesus is the answer.

Phil Robertson

#40. True love of others, according to Jesus, flows out of a love of God. The service of our lives flow out of the loving relationship we have with God. Too often we desire our service to create a loving relationship with God. Yet God does not seek after us because of any good deeds we have done.

Tyler Braun

#41. If we are co-eternal with God, then it is not God's creation of the human out of nothing that defines our essential relationship to him. It is His freely made choice to inaugurate and sustain loving relationships, and our choice to reciprocate, that are at the core of our relationship to the Divine.

Terryl L. Givens

#42. Remember that any functioning communication, and communication is a two-street; it requires my listening and my speaking. Our relationship with the Lord is no different. It requires my listening to God through a study of His word, and my speaking to God through diligent prayer.

Teresa Hampton

#43. Our relationship with Jesus is based on grace- on the unexpected, undeserved, counterintuitive love of God.

Justin Buzzard

#44. JUNE 22 I am sure of this, that He who started a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. Philippians 1:6 Our glorious walk with God began with an act of faith that brought us into relationship with Jesus Christ as our Savior, but it doesn

Beth Moore

#45. Because we are made in God's image, in fleeing from a relationship with a loving God, we are also running from being our most authentic selves.

Kathleen Norris

#46. If we teach Truth but not the Source of Truth, we don't really succeed in passing on our faith.

Kevin Thoman

#47. Refusing to gossip is a beautiful decision to make. It not only creates richer friendships but, more importantly, it makes our relationship with the Lord more authentic and believable. We honor God when we honor each other.

Lysa TerKeurst

#48. Relationship with God is not immune to the surprises and costs of our daily life.

Walter Brueggemann

#49. There is the need for an intimate romantic relationship with the father. Abundant joy and an intimate personal receiving of God's love should be our priority because you can never get enough of this, people return again and again to swim in the river or soak in the son.

John Arnott

#50. Without having any relationship with God, we will not change anything in our world

Sunday Adelaja

#51. Religion should lay more emphasis on our relationship with people

Sunday Adelaja

#52. But kids like us grow up and need our own relationship with God, forged in the heart through time and experience, not draped around us by the church we attend. We need to know God for ourselves, not secondhand.

Frank E. Peretti

#53. Seth's quote from his book:
"And if I only could
I'd make a deal with God and I'd get Him to swap our places"
-"Running up that Hill" by Kate Bush

Richelle Mead

#54. God has called His creation to find satisfaction in a personal relationship with Him, and stop trying to manage the world by conforming it to our expectations, and to allow Him to govern His creation. He continues to say through an ancient Hebrew worship song, Be still and know that I am God!

Charles R. Swindoll

#55. Joy is produced in our hearts when we know that God loves us, when we have a close relationship with Him through reading His Word, praying, and desiring to honor Him in all that we do, and by serving others.

Billy Graham

#56. We each were endowed at birth with a unique gift, something we were born to do or become that no one else can achieve the way we can. God's purpose is that we bear abundant fruit and release the blessings of our gift and potential to the world.

Myles Munroe

#57. We must carefully examine our relationship with Jesus Christ before we make any attempts to introduce him to strangers. Matthew 7:21-23

Felix Wantang

#58. Faith will help put us together on the same direction. Faith is building a relationship with God where he is in control. It is about believing although we do not always see. Do we love God with all our heart, mind, and soul? Can we follow his voice?

Phil Mitchell

#59. All our problems are theological ones, William Temple said. All of them have to do with our relationship to God and his to us, and this is precisely why it makes sense to come to God with them.

Elisabeth Elliot

#60. Our comfort in theological traditions should never usurp our desire for spiritual Truth. If we vigorously pursue the rituals rather than a relational experience with God then we've missed His message entirely.

Jason Versey

#61. Even in our most intense worship, we should not forget that our relationship to god is tied to our relationship with others.

Jeffrey Lang

#62. The only science that gives purpose to every other science is the science of religion - the science of our happy relationship with, and our providential dependence on God and our neighbor.

Solanus Casey

#63. Our relationship must be right with God before it can be right with man.

Billy Graham

#64. Knowing God is a matter of grace. It is a relationship in which the initiative throughout is with God - as it must be, since God is so completely above us and we have so completely forfeited all claim on his favor by our sins.

J.I. Packer

#65. Religion should be about your relationship with God, not what the church says you can and can't do.

Eddie Guerrero

#66. We were not saved from our sin simply so that we would qualify for heaven. God delivered us so we would have a relationship with Him through which He could carry out His mission to redeem a lost world.

Henry Blackaby

#67. mothering is our first preverbal template for an existence in which we feel welcomed or rejected, loved or abandoned, many of us have fused our relationship with our mothers with our concepts of God.

Geneen Roth

#68. And the purpose of our creation, in which all our subsidiary purposes fit, is to be in a personal relationship to God, in communion with him, in love, by choice, the creature before the Creator.

Francis Schaeffer

#69. When we fake fine, we fake our way out of authentic relationship with God, others, and ourselves.

Esther Fleece

#70. The proof that our relationship is right with God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not.

Oswald Chambers

#71. God created us in his image, male and female, with personhood and sexual passions, so that when he comes to us in this world there would be these powerful words and images to describe the promises and the pleasures of our covenant relationship with him through Christ.

John Piper

#72. God the Father wants us to know Him. We can only know Him through Christ, and our relationship with Christ brings forth eternal life! You see Christ is our salvation. Salvation is not
something outside of Him, He is our salvation Himself.

Billy Witt

#73. Animals have this way of constantly confronting us with ultimate questions - about truth and falsehood, guilt and innocence, God and sanctity and the soul - forcing us to define ourselves and our relationship to the world.

Matthew Scully

#74. We "talk" relationship but we "live" religion, with unsatisfying results. Christianity defines itself, first and foremost, as a relationship with God. Even though this is true, our human nature tends toward living a relationship with God as if it were a religion

Mark Cowper-Smith

#75. It's not the law of religion nor the principles of morality that define our highways and pathways to God; only by the Grace of God are we led and drawn, to God. It is His grace that conquers a multitude of flaws and in that grace, there is only favor. Favor is not achieved; favor is received.

C. JoyBell C.

#76. When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

Joyce Meyer

#77. The moment we came into covenant relationship with God, His goodness was permanently pointed in our direction. God's favor is toward us, not away from us.

Kynan Bridges

#78. God can desire to enter into a relationship with us; he can be drawn to some aspect of our identity.

Meir Soloveichik

#79. Not everyone has so much deep knowledge and understanding of God's relationship with the Hebrew Nation. Even some of the Christians have no deep understanding of the whole matter. I think we should make it our priority to educate them not to condemn them.

Euginia Herlihy

#80. As Christians we are not out for our own cause at all, we are out for the cause of God, which can never be our cause. We do not know what God is after, but we have to maintain our relationship with Him whatever happens.

Oswald Chambers

#81. especially his relationship with creation. The thought of an infinite God stooping low to relate to and redeem a broken people rightfully leaves our minds reeling - or at least it should.

J. Ryan Lister

#82. We want a god alright, but we humanize him enough to force him to be at our beck-and-call verses responding to the utter magnificence of His call.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#83. Very often, we are confronted by people who want us to pray their way or colleagues who want us to think their way. We must remember to maintain our individual relationship with God. We have the shining light of Soul, and because we have it, we also have the wisdom of God.

Harold Klemp

#84. Broken Places

"It is by willfully choosing to trust in the strength God offers, to heal our broken places, that we find encouragement and a deeper relationship with our Father.

Cheryl Zelenka

#85. God loves us faithfully. He loves me and he loves you just as we are, today, right now, right here, no matter where we are or what's going on in our lives. God listens to our words and hears the quiet whispers in our hearts. Each of us is given the opportunity to have a unique relationship with God.

Lizzie Velasquez

#86. The word 'God' defines a personal relation, not an objective concept. Like the name of the beloved in every love. It does not imply separation and distance. Hearing the beloved name is an immediate awareness, a dimensionless proximity of presence. It is our life wholly transformed into relation.

Christos Yannaras

#87. The revelation of God's grace contained in Romans delivers believers from a performance mentality - which bases relationship with God on our own efforts - to a total trust and reliance upon the Lord, His goodness, and grace.

Andrew Wommack

#88. When we don't have anyone else, we develop a deep relationship with God that will carry us through anything life brings our way. The

Joyce Meyer

#89. God allows us to have a personal relationship with himself and he forgives and loves us as children. If God forgives our such great sins against his Son should we not forgive such little sins against ourselves?

Greg Gordon

#90. Central to our faith is John 3:3: "No one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again." This passage is all about reconciliation. The deepest need of every human is to be brought into a right relationship with their Creator.

Andrew White

#91. God's commands are focused on what it means to be in a relationship with others: to trust in God alone and to love and worship him in the way he approves and to look out for the good of our fellow image bearers.

Michael S. Horton

#92. I have a theory about soul mates
that God wants to be our sweetheart. And once we fall in love with life and have an intimate relationship with Spirit, that's when we meet our soul mate. It's as if God says, 'You're not meant to be alone on this earth. I just wanted you to love me first.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#93. God has given us His Word to assure us of our relationship with Him so that we may walk as Christians with confidence, knowing that our salvation is in Him.

David Jeremiah

#94. Without the Fatherhood of God driving our manhood, we become "mad scientists" as we destructively experiment with those in our charge. But because of Jesus there is hope...Through a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, God becomes our Father.

Eric Mason

#95. God. Our highest destiny is to know God, to be in personal relationship with him. Our chief claim to nobility as human beings is that we were made in the image of God and are therefore capable of knowing him.

John R.W. Stott

#96. In the Old Testament, God dealt with His people as a nation ... Their relationship was completely external. But in the New Covenant, the presence of God moved out of the temple and into our hearts.

John Chisum

#97. It's not about you. It's not about me. This life that we live, the reason we're here. It's only when we see our lives through eternal eyes that we find true peace or wealth that will last. Real security can only be found in that which can never be taken from you ... in a relationship with God.

Tamera Alexander

#98. It is absolutely a relationship with food that is a displaced relationship with God. And that displaced relationship with God takes two forms: our availability to other people and our availability to our own thoughts and feelings.

Marianne Williamson

#99. We were never created to settle for mere religion. Jesus did not die so that we could have a religious belief system - but rather a life-giving relationship with our Father.

Christine Caine

#100. We have to remember all the time how wonderful life with God is so as not to lose out on our relationship with Him

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