Quotes on Connecting With God

You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.

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.

We all have the same God, we just serve him differently. Rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, oceans all have different names, but they all contain water. So do religions have different names, and they all contain truth, expressed in different ways forms and times. It doesn't matter whether you're a Muslim, a Christian, or a Jew. When you believe in God, you should believe that all people are part of one family. If you love God, you can't love only some of his children.

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.

The Lord is knocking at the door of our hearts. Have we put a sign on the door saying: 'Do not disturb'?

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

Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-

Am I as spontaneously kind to God as I used to be, or am I only expecting God to be kind to me? Am I full of the little things that cheer His heart over me, or am I whimpering because things are going hardly with me? There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.

Be much alone with God, and take time to get thoroughly acquainted. Converse over everything with Him. Unburden yourself wholly -every thought, feeling, wish, plan, doubt- to Him...He wants not merely to be on good terms with you, but to be intimate.

Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God.

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.

The One who saved your soul longs to remake your heart. Let's fix our eyes on Jesus. Perhaps in seeing Him, we will see what we can become!

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

True religion is not about possessing the truth. No religion does that. It is rather an invitation into a journey that leads one toward the mystery of God. Idolatry is religion pretending that it has all the answers.

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

A true faith in Jesus Christ will not suffer us to be idle. No, it is an active, lively, restless principle; it fills the heart, so that it cannot be easy till it is doing something for Jesus Christ.

You and your sins must separate, or you and your God will never come together.

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.

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