Top 100 Quotes About Relationship With God
#1. Where there is no relationship with God there is no future
Sunday Adelaja
#2. Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don't develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.
Timothy Keller
#3. The answer goes back to why God created us.He created us to be His loved ones,His family with whom He can share a relationship of mutual enjoyment. This shows the kind of God He is-a personal God who values loving relationships more than anything else in all the universe.
Ruth Myers
#4. 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
#5. Our relationship with God broadens our opportunities and influence on earth
Sunday Adelaja
#6. Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian's relationship with God. It's how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they're not satisfied with their prayer life.
Joyce Meyer
#7. If God lives in you and you have a relationship with Him, He will protect you
Sunday Adelaja
#8. All of us have areas of weakness. God wants these character flaws to show us how totally dependent we are upon Him. When we handle them properly, they drive us into a deeper, more intimate relationship with the Lord. But uncontrolled weakness wreaks havoc in a person's life.
Charles Stanley
#9. 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.
#10. There's nothing more narcissistic than being sure that you are built in the image of an all-powerful Creator-God, and that same God answers your prayers, knows your name, and has a personal relationship with you.
David G. McAfee
#11. My dad was a preacher. My relationship, for example, with my father
very difficult, and very painful, and it took me 50 years to wipe the face of my father off the face of God.
William P. Young
#12. A full relationship is what God offers to those who come to God by Jesus. Imagine this! An open invitation to become a member of the royal family and a joint-heir with the Son of God.
R.T. Kendall
#13. Rejection Is God's Protection
When someone rejects or breaks up with you, it may be a blessing in disguise. The person was not right for you. Or maybe you would have eventually been miserable with them. Now the door is open for someone else much better to come into your life.
Pamela Cummins
#14. Your relationship with God, others, yourself, and all creation keeps changing for the better. Most of the world's religions have developed maps to describe this process.
Thomas Keating
#15. Repentance is the first step on the path back to your relationship with God.
Jim George
#16. The only possible relationship with God is to address him and to be addressed by him, here and now - or, as Buber puts it, in the present.
Martin Buber
#17. 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
#18. God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.
Stephen Hawking
#19. Jesus didn't die on the cross so we can do something epic. He died so we can have a relationship with an epic God who moves in epic ways!
Alisa Hope Wagner
#20. Through uninhibited relationship with God you are empowered to function
Sunday Adelaja
#21. Man to God: "I've let you down so many times."
God to man: "You weren't holding me up. I uphold you with My righteous right hand. That's how it works in this relationship. I - hold - you - up.
The Skit Guys
#22. An ongoing relationship with God through His Word is essential to the Christian's consistent victory!
Beth Moore
#23. My truest desire is fellowship with good friends, the love of a caring family, and a close relationship with God.
Wanda E. Brunstetter
#24. Ninety-nine percent of everything you do in life is attitude. If you have a relationship with God ... you're going to learn to ask the one question in life that covers everything: How can I help you?
Walter Levine
#25. Be in a close association with your creator whose is ever ready to direct your plans. Always ensure your convictions are divine and backed by a Godly approval.
Israelmore Ayivor
#26. Humans alone are created as rational beings in the image of God, capable of a relationship with God and given by him the capacity to understand the universe in which they live.
John Lennox
#27. The main thing to avoid being a casualty is simply this: to have a kind of intimate personal relationship with Jesus Christ whereby you're able to hear God speak to your heart, you're sensitive to what He's saying to you to do, and that you're willing to be obedient to Him.
Charles Stanley
#28. But believing in God and having a relationship with Him were two different things.
Karen Kingsbury
#29. It has been religious people, often within the organized church, who have been the most critical of and even hostile to my relationship with God.
Anne Graham Lotz
#30. 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
#31. Your relationship or lack of relationship with God through Jesus Christ continues after your last breath on this earth.
Alisa Hope Wagner
#32. For you to have any relationship with God, it must be through His Word by His Spirit.
T. B. Joshua
#33. When I put my faith in Jesus Christ as my savior, and I asked him to forgive and to come into my life, and He does - from that moment forward I have established a personal relationship with God that I have to develop, you know, through Bible reading and prayer, and living my life for him.
Anne Graham Lotz
#34. When Jesus said, "I am the way," He meant that to have a true relationship with God, you must practice His way.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#35. True Prayer is the work of relationship, where He moves them from mere information about Him to a one-on-one experience with Him, so that now when they talk about "knowing God," they mean more than, "I understand what you're saying about God," but also, "It fits my experience of Him.
Geoffrey Wood
#36. If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.
T Bone Burnett
#37. I would say 90 percent of Christians do not have a worldview, in other words a view of the world, based on the Scripture and a relationship with God.
Josh McDowell
#38. Allowing God to charge our lives that we may empower people around us to live In a greater relationship with him.
David Walker
#39. The cause of the distress of a living entity is forgetfulness of his relationship with God.
Anonymous
#40. I had struggled so hard and so long that I had simply exhausted myself, only to find that God had all the time in the world to wait for me to allow Him to free me.
Michelle McKinney Hammond
#41. 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
#42. I believe a personal relationship with God is healthy, but organized religion has potential for danger, in whatever faith.
Max Lucado
#43. 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.
#44. For me, living in the closet corroded my ability to have an honest, open relationship with my God, my loved ones, my constituency and myself.
James McGreevey
#45. 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
#46. If we have a relationship with Jesus Christ and believe the Bible to be the Word of God, then we have no room for wallowing in the swamp of self-pity.
Lois Mowday Rabey
#47. There is nothing better than giving up everything and stepping into a passionate love relationship with God, the God of the universe who made galaxies, leaves, laughter, and me and you.
Francis Chan
#48. Oh, Lord, bestow me with the power, that as much as I love her, I extinguish the need of loving her within me.
Alireza Salehi Nejad
#49. Our ability to accept life's difficult offerings is a testament of our relationship with God.
Scott Hildreth
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. Christianity is an intimate, growing relationship with the person of Jesus Christ. It is not a set of doctrines to believe, habits to practice, or sins to avoid. Every activity God commands is intended to enhance His love relationship with His people.
Henry T. Blackaby
#53. People do not always take responsibility for their own spirituality and their own spiritual relationship with God.
Echo Bodine
#54. A covenant is a bond in blood sovereignly administered. When God enters into a covenantal relationship with men, he sovereignly institutes a life-and-death bond. A covenant is a bond in blood, or a bond of life and death, sovereignly administered.
O. Palmer Robertson
#55. Your spiritual and physical growth depends mainly on your time management and personal relationship with God
Sunday Adelaja
#56. To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.
E. Stanley Jones
#57. The realization that my daily relationship with God is based on the infinite merit of Christ instead of on my own performance is a very freeing and joyous experience. But it is not meant to be a one-time experience; the truth needs to be reaffirmed daily.
Jerry Bridges
#58. She resented the fact that her veil, which to her was a symbol of her sacred relationship to God, had now become an instrument of power, turning the women who wore them into political signs and symbols. Where do your loyalties lie, Mr. Bahri, with Islam or the state?
Azar Nafisi
#59. At its core, black theology is predicated on the assertion that God has a unique relationship with African Americans. God is not a passive bystander in human history but rather an active participant in the struggles of oppressed and dispossessed people.
Melissa V. Harris-Perry
#60. Certainly we should be very active in seeking God, and Jesus himself called us to 'ask, seek, knock' in order to find him. Yet those who enter a relationship with God inevitably look back and recognize that God's grace had sought them out, breaking them open to new realities.
Timothy Keller
#61. The greatest comfort in this life is having a close relationship with God.
David O. McKay
#62. With each challenging situation, each nightmare - each new piece of grit embraced and transformed - I came through with a more loving family, deeper friendships, and an even more profound relationship with God.
Sharon E. Rainey
#63. Our problems sometimes show the degree of our relationship with God.
Paul Gitwaza
#64. My mother made sure we stayed involved in the church and the things of God. My relationship with Christ came about through that and the influences of my mother and grandmother helped my faith to grow.
Torii Hunter
#65. I did nothing to deserve God's love; in fact, I was living as an orphan, without hope. Yet God chose to pursue a relationship with me, and through the death of his son Jesus, I was adopted into God's family.
Steven Curtis Chapman
#66. If you want to be of use to God, maintain the proper relationship with Jesus Christ by staying focused on Him & He will make use of you every minute you live- yet you will be unaware, on the conscious level of your life, that you are being used of Him.
Oswald Chambers
#67. To strengthen our relationship with God, we need some meaningful time alone with Him
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#68. Let's dare to enter into an intimate relationship with God without fear, trusting that we will receive love and always more love.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#69. In the periods of my life when I've had least contact with the Church, I've always assumed a belief in God is a solid thing, but clearly it's a relationship; it has good days and bad days.
Tom Hollander
#70. Caring for your heart is also how you protect your relationship with God ... [The heart] is where we commune with him. It is where we hear his voice. Most of the folks I know who have never heard God speak to them are the same folks who live far from their hearts.
John Eldredge
#71. If we have no story to tell, no need to shout out and proclaim the acts of God, then are we are really walking in relationship with God?
Gareth J. Goossen
#72. 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
#73. The single most important issue in all of life (is) your relationship with the living God ... how you can know Him in a personal and meaningful way.
Charles R. Swindoll
#74. Human life without a relationship with God is simply a mere existence.
Sunday Adelaja
#75. You must never sacrifice your relationship with God for the sake of a relationship with another person.
Charles Stanley
#76. Original sin is not only the violation of a positive command ... but ... attempts ... to abolish fatherhood, destroying its rays which permeate the created world, placing in doubt the truth about God who is Love and leaving man with only a sense of the master-slave relationship.
Pope John Paul II
#77. People who don't know the true character of God - who don't believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger - can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.
Joyce Meyer
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. God's relationship with man does not work in a way in which man stumbles and then God has to drop what he is doing in order to lift him up; rather, man stumbles so that God can lift him up. Hence it is utterly impossible to truly diminish his glory.
Criss Jami
#81. 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
#82. God used my year of waiting not to frustrate me, or abandon me, but to draw me into a closer relationship with Him.
Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson
#83. I'm thankful to have Jesus as my Savior. My relationship with God has always been one to where I'm talking to him all day, every day, about anything and everything. It's just a continuous ongoing conversation that I have with the Lord, and I feel like that's brought me closer to Him.
Josh Turner
#84. offer you what is needed for true value and self-worth. True security comes only within the framework of your relationship with God. Relationships
Debra Fileta
#85. Our relationship with God flows out of our love for God.
Christine Caine
#86. You are priceless - fearfully and wonderfully made. God shaped and modeled you in your mother's womb. God created you in his own image. You were created, redeemed, and are deeply loved and valued by God. Therefore, the man who wants to be involved with you should have to count the cost.
Michelle McKinney Hammond
#87. The determining factor in our relationship with God is not our past but Christ's past.
Timothy Keller
#88. Learn to appreciate loneliness for the gift that it truly is - a chance for God to finally get you alone so He can go to work on building a relationship with
you.
Mandy Hale
#89. We can have a friendly and intimate relationship with God.
Stefan Emunds
#90. An intimate relationship must be developed over time, whether it's with God or anyone else.
Andrew Wommack
#91. Choose a single, sacred word or phrase that captures something of the flavor of your intimate relationship with God. A word such as Jesus, Abba, Peace, God or a phrase such as "Abba, I belong to you." ... Without moving your lips, repeat the sacred word inwardly, slowly, and often.
Brennan Manning
#92. Leader discover themselves through a continuous fellowship and relationship with their sources of their life and wisdom. Self-discovery is the key to true leadership!
Israelmore Ayivor
#93. 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
#94. The more intimate your relationship with God becomes the easier it will be for you to obey His leadings
Sunday Adelaja
#95. Nothing else you do will ever matter as much as helping people establish an eternal relationship with God.
Rick Warren
#96. Judging is not your job; it is God's job. God is the only one who can judge another person correctly. Your job is to pay mind to your own life and to your relationship with God.
Steve Harper
#97. How is your relationship with God, John?" I thought about it for a while, and then finally I said, "Complicated.
Anonymous
#98. Turn to God now and stop struggling with your personal relationship with him
Sunday Adelaja
#99. If in my life I fail completely to heed others, solely out of a desire to be 'devout' and to perform my 'religious duties', then my relationship with God will also grow arid. It becomes merely 'proper', but loveless.
Pope Benedict XVI
#100. It makes it easier to wait for the man God has for me," Said Elly, "Because I already have the most important relationship. I can spend my life loving and being loved by the perfect Bridegroom. I don't have to wait for a man to fall in love with me to make me happy.
Jennae Noelle
