Quotes on Intimacy With God

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

Of all the things you must earn in life, God's unending affection is not one of them. You have it.

To pray is to accept that we are, and always will be, wholly dependent on God for everything.

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.

No matter what changes God has performed in you, never rely on them. Build only on a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ, and on the Spirit He gives.

He who looks sinward has his back to God-he who looks Godward has his back to sin.

When a man is filled with the Word of God you cannot keep him still, If a man has got the Word, he must speak or die.

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

There is no use in running before you are sent; there is no use in attempting to do God's work without God's power. A man working without this unction, a man working without this anointing, a man working without the Holy Ghost upon him, is losing time after all.

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!

Souls who can recognize God in the most trivial, the most grievous and the most mortifying things that happen to them in their lives, honor everything equally with delight and rejoicing, and welcome with open arms what others dread and avoid.

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.

No matter what you’re going through there's no pit so deep that God can’t reach in and get you out.

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.

Dear young people, Jesus wants to be your friend, and wants you to spread the joy of this friendship everywhere.

The priestly vocation is essentially a call to sanctity, in the form that derives from the Sacrament of Holy Orders. Sanctity is intimacy with God; it is the imitation of Christ, poor, chaste and humble; it is unreserved love for souls and self-giving to their true good; it is love for the church which is holy and wants us to be holy, because such is the mission that Christ has entrusted to it. Each one of you must be holy also in order to help your brothers pursue their vocation to sanctity.

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

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.