Closeness to God Quotes

The purer I try to become, the nearer I feel to be to God.

Nothing is nearer to us than heaven. The earth is beneath our feet, and we tread upon it, but heaven is within us.

A God who draws near out of love, the Holy Father continued, walks with His people, and this walk comes to an unimaginable point. We could never have imagined that the same Lord would become one of us and walk with us, be present with us, present in His Church, present in the Eucharist, present in His Word, present in the poor, He is present, walking with us. And this is closeness: the shepherd close to his flock, close to his sheep, whom he knows, one by one.

Prayer is nothing else than a sense of God's presence

Between God and Me there is no 'Between'.

We are close to God when we are close to people. If we think of God as something in favor of the betterment of human beings, and if we act in a way that brings about that betterment-if we do not cling to riches, selfishness, or greed-then I believe we are getting closer to God.

One sweetly solemn thought, comes to me o'er and o'er; I am nearer home today, than I ever have been before.

Give me faith, Lord, to know Your Presence as surely as I know the beating of my own heart. I've felt so far from You.

Because God is with you all the time, no place is any closer to God than the place where you are right now.

The closer you live to God, the smaller everything else appears.

The greatest comfort in this life is having a close relationship with God.

Every time you get on your knees and pray to God, 'Holy' keeps the respect and reverence while 'Father' brings Him close & intimate.

The moral task of man is a process of spiritualization. All creatures are go-betweens, and we are placed in time that by diligence in spiritual business we may grow liker and nearer to God. The aim of man is beyond the temporal - in the serene region of the everlasting Present.

We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts

You need seek God neither below or above.He is no farther away than the door of the heart.

We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.

Throughout Jesus' ministry, He took time away from the crowds and even His disciples to pray by Himself. Jesus modeled the importance of not only serving God with our actions but of being still and drawing close to God to renew our souls.

Traditionally, I have responded to the transcendent mystics of all religions. I have always responded with breathless excitement to anyone who has ever said that God does not live in a dogmatic scripture or in a distant throne in the sky, but instead abides very close to us indeed- much closer than we can imagine, breathing right through our own hearts.

May we realize how close to us He is willing to come, how far He is willing to go to help us and how much He loves us.

The closer we are to God, the closer we are to those who are close to him.

If, in your relationship with the Lord, you do not feel that He loves you tenderly, you are missing something, you still have not understood what grace is, you have not yet received grace which is this closeness.

God is still on His throne, we're still on His 'footstool,' and there's only a knee's distance between!

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

The nearer we are to God, the less we will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from God, the more will long faces come. The more we know God, the more misery vanishes.

The higher a man's conception of God, the better will he know Him. And the better he knows God, the nearer will he draw to Him.