Quotes about Intimacy
To the degree you have experienced intimacy with God, you won't be afraid of death because you're experiencing the first tastes and promises of heaven in this world.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
People who don't know the true character of God - who don't believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger - can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.
— Joyce Meyer
People who are close to God cultivate a personal intimacy with Him like a good gardener cultivates beautiful flowers.
— Charles Swindoll
In the presence of God, nothing stands between Him and us - we are forgiven. But we cannot feel His presence if anything is allowed to stand between ourselves and others.
— Dag Hammarskjold
The voice of the Spirit is as gentle as a zephyr, so gentle that unless you are living in perfect communion with God, you never hear it.
— Oswald Chambers
You can't fake it when you're alone with God, you know.
— Jim Bakker
Most Christians are satisfied living as common Christians, without an insatiable hunger for the deeper things of God.
— AW Tozer
God is nearer to us than our own spirit
— Julian of Norwich
It is only when we understand the transcendence of God that we see how amazing his immanence is, and what a huge privilege it is to be able to enjoy God's intimate friendship.
— Nicky Gumbel
God is a kooky God who can scarcely bear to be without us.
— Brennan Manning
When he went back to the fire he knelt and smoothed her hair as she slept and he said if he were God he would have made the world just so and no different.
— Cormac McCarthy
Prayer is - keeping company with God.
— Philip Yancey