Quotes about Nearness

Expect to see the God of ages fight for you. He is near, as near as your next breath.

In our loneliest moments the One who formed our "inmost being and knitted us together in the womb" offers us a friendship, a nearness unlike any other. God created our inmost and our outermost beings. He knows us emotionally, physically, and mentally better than anyone else.

Ask the Lord for greater trust in the nearness of his presence today.

You are near to all who call on You, Lord, to all who call on You in truth (Ps. 145:18).

Draw me near Your presence, Lord, disclose Yourself to me.

A better hope is introduced, through which we draw near to God. Hebrews 7:19

The light of God's presence in our lives is a purifying flame that will draw us near to Him.

We must practice the Presence of God. Jesus said, "Lo, I am with you always" [Matthew 28:20]. Remember, Christ is always near us.

Holiness is proximity to the throne.

Deep, solemn optimism, it seems to me, should spring from this firm belief in the presence of God in the individual; not a remote, unapproachable governor of the universe, but a God who is very near every one of us, who is present not only in earth, sea and sky, but also in every pure and noble impulse of our hearts, "the source and centre of all minds

Give us that calm certainty of truth, that nearness to Thee, that conviction of the reality of the life to come, which we shall need to bear us through the troubles of this.

The way to have God near to you is to be humble and broken. As long as we are stubborn and hard and unbending, He will be far from us.