Quotes About The Nearness Of God

#1. Wide awake to the presence of God, I realized I had been so focused on asking why a good God allowed bad things to happen that I was missing out on the nearness of God all along. In becoming preoccupied with the why, I was missing the who.

Margaret Feinberg

#2. Lay claim to the nearness of God. "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you" (Heb. 13.5 NIV).

Max Lucado

#3. When it seems as if God is far away, remind yourself that He is near. Nearness is not a matter of geography. God is everywhere. Nearness is likeness. The more we become like the Lord, the nearer He is to us.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#4. What a state of safety and privilege is this nearness to God through Jesus! Do you know it by experience? If you know it, are you living in the power of it?

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#5. The Holy One's nearness, the readiness to name the Holy One as God, and the recognition of God as Father.

James Carroll

#6. You don't serve God by saying: the Church is ineffective, I'll have none of it. Your pain at its lack of effectiveness is a sign of your nearness to God. We help overcome this lack of effectiveness simply by suffering on account of it.

Flannery O'Connor

#7. It is a time for quietness and prayer. Death is present with us every day of our lives, it behooves us to take note of its nearness, not as a threat, but as our common experience on the way to grace. There is no more to be said. It is better to accept the will of God, and be silent.

Ellis Peters

#8. Nearness to God brings likeness to God. The more you see God the more of God will be seen in you.

Charles Spurgeon

#9. When you're working on film music, you're only working on 20, 30-minute sections at a time.

Howard Shore

#10. God desires that man should be. God does not wish to be alone. The meaning of existence is the conquest of loneliness, the acquisition of kinship and nearness.

Nikolai A. Berdyaev

#11. What he lacked in experience, he made up for in enthusiasm and the sweetness of innocence.

Nick Wilgus

#12. "Faith" as an imperative is a veto against science-in praxi, it means lies at any price.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. Modern man has lost any sense of God's nearness, but Christianity teaches that God reveals himself through every single thing he has ever brought into being, whether a created object or historical event.

R.C. Sproul

#14. He became my confidante, someone with whom I could share thoughts I could never voice ... In exchange, he trusted me with his.

Suzanne Collins

#15. Artists are interpreters for us of richness and meaning. Artists can reinforce a healthy sense of God's grandeur and nearness.

Sandra Bowden

#16. True love is an intense desire for the presence of its object. God is only ours in reality when we are conscious of His nearness, and that is strange love of Him which is content to pass days without ever setting Him before itself.

Alexander MacLaren

#17. People are fed up with the career politicians who created this mess or failed to prevent it and neither was acceptable, and the only way we could change that was by sending a different type of person to Washington.

Ted Yoho

#18. Nearness to God is common to us all,
Because we're all created and sustained by God,
But only the authentically noble
Possess and live that nearness
That's a constant upswelling passion of love.

Rumi

#19. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself; my existence depends on the nearness and the presence of God.

Meister Eckhart

#20. Safety comes in our nearness to God, not in our distance from our enemies.

Dillon Burroughs

#21. If you knew what a sensation of the nearness of a higher power one instinctively feels when one is permitted to contribute to the good of mankind, as I have done, and still do! Believe me, it is a great gift of God's mercy!

Jenny Lind

#22. It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.

Tony Blair

#23. When that churl Death my bones with dust shall cover.

William Shakespeare

#24. If I read something and I love it, I'll do it and I don't even ask what the budget is.

Eric Bana