Quotes about Closeness

O You Whom I Often and Silently Come O you whom I often and silently come where you are that I may be with you, As I walk by your side or sit near, or remain in the same room with you, Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing within me.

I fear the name of friendship is often degraded to a kind of intimacy that has nothing of real friendship in it.

So close was Christ's connection with God that he equated a man's attitude to himself with the man's attitude to God.

The faces we lose track of most easily are the faces of the people who are closest to us, the people we love the most whose faces we see so often that we can't really see them anymore.

God trusts most those who know Him best, and those who know Him best are those who have spent the most time with Him.

Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

What is the sign of a friend? Is it that he tells you his secret sorrows? No, it is that he tells you his secret joys. Many people will confide their secret sorrows to you, but the final mark of intimacy is when they share their secret joys with you.

God is nearer to us than our own spirit

Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.

Those closest to us have first claim to our acts of love.

When we break bread and give it to each other, fear vanishes and God becomes very close.