Quotes on Communion With God

Don't ever hesitate to take to [God] whatever is on your heart. He already knows it anyway, but He doesn't want you to bear its pain or celebrate its joy alone.

At times we can be self-absorbed. Lord, help us to open our hearts to others and to serve those who are most vulnerable.

The "door of faith" (Acts 14:27) is always open for us, ushering us into the life of communion with God and offering entry into his Church. It is possible to cross that threshold when the word of God is proclaimed and the heart allows itself to be shaped by transforming grace. To enter through that door is to set out on a journey that lasts a lifetime.

Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. As we engage in this communion with God more deeply and come to know the One with whom we are speaking more intimately, that growing knowledge of God reveals to us all the more brilliantly who we are and our need to change in conformity to Him. Prayer changes us profoundly.

The next time you find yourself alone in a dark alley facing the undeniables of life, don't cover them with a blanket, or ignore them with a nervous grin. Don't turn up the TV and pretend they aren't there. Instead, stand still, whisper his name, and listen. He is nearer than you think.

Let us never forget that authentic power is service, which has its radiant culmination on the Cross.

I hunger for the bread of God, the flesh of Jesus Christ ...; I long to drink of his blood, the gift of unending love.

To keep the heart then, is carefully to preserve it from sin which disorders it; and maintain that spiritual and gracious frame, which fits it for a life of communion with God.

I ought to spend the best hours of the day in communion with God. It is my noblest and most fruitful employment, and is not to be thrust into any corner.

When you suffer, don't speak. Look inside and listen for the duaa He inspires in you. and then ask Him. Again and again. Don't stop.

If God has made your cup sweet, drink it with grace; if He has made it bitter, drink it in communion with Him.

Jesus intercedes for us each day. Let us pray: Lord, have mercy on me; intercede for me!

Dear parents, teach your children to pray. Pray with them.

Grace will expose the deepest issues of your heart, then point you to the Cross which covers everything that's been exposed.

Don't worry about having the right words; worry more about having the right heart. It's not eloquence he seeks, just honesty.

Has there not been, sometimes, this temptation to do a great deal for Christ, but not to live a great deal with Christ?

To be friends with God means to pray with simplicity, like children talking to their parents.

Prayer is not getting things from God. That is a most initial stage; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God: I tell Him what I know He knows in order that I may get to know it as He does.

God save us from living in comfort while sinners are sinking into hell!

Thy way, not mine, O Lord, however dark it be; lead me by thine own hand; choose out the path for me.

Our prayers are heard by God not according to what we try to be when we pray, but who we are when we are not praying