Divine Proximity Quotes

You are as close to God as you choose to be.

We may have city lights and the glow of touch screens to obscure our view, but God's world is still near at hand, even right here in New York City where I live.

The nearer a man gets to God, the greater he sees his sin.

Each generation of rabbis is necessarily less perfect than the rabbis that came before, since each generation is more removed from the perfection of the Garden. Therefore, no rabbi is allowed to overturn any of his forebears' wisdom, since they are all, by definition, smarter than him.

The God of Israel is sometimes a God who hides Himself, but never a God who absents Himself; sometimes in the dark, but never at a distance.

Lo, I am with you always means when you look for God, God is in the look of your eyes, in the thought of looking, nearer to you than your self, or things that have happened to you. There's no need to go outside.

God is near you, is with you, is inside you.

Prayer is not so much a way to find God as a way of resting in him...who loves us, who is near to us.

Most of the time I ask, "Why have I forsaken God?" I look at myself and ask that question when probably the better question is to say, "Where are you God, and I'll let you in." Instead of thinking that you've abandoned God, push yourself in the other direction like, "God, how can I get closer?"

Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.

See, Heaven is not someplace on a disc in the sky floating around, it's right here amongst us.

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

Don't equate the presence of God with a good mood or a pleasant temperament. God is near whether you are happy or not.

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

God is nearer to me than I am to myself; He is just as near to wood and stone, but they do not know it.

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.

There are times when I draw near enough to touch Him, then I know that He has been there all the time

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

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

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 clergy [in the 14th century] on the whole were probably no more lecherous or greedy or untrustworthy than other men, but because they were supposed to be better or nearer to God than other men, their failings attracted more attention.

"Do not fear! Heaven is as near," He said, "by water as by land!"

In the morning of the world, When earth was nigher heaven than now.

How can God stoop lower than to come and dwell with a poor humble soul? Which is more than if he had said, such a one should dwell with him; for a beggar to live at court is not so much as the king to dwell with him in his cottage.