Horace Bushnell Quotes

I do my best to try to keep God with me on a personal level. It's my belief that God really wants a personal relationship with us.

The Lord showed me, so that I did see clearly, that he did not dwell in these temples which men had commanded and set up, but in people's hearts... his people were his temple, and he dwelt in them.

God didn’t want me to do more for Him. He wanted me to be more with Him.

...music is the living God in our bosoms.

God is not just one thing we add to the mix called life. He wants an invitation from us to permeate everything and every part of us.

There is a divine purpose behind everything - and therefore a divine presence in everything.

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.

I said to the almond tree, 'Friend, speak to me of God,' and the almond tree blossomed.

I think there is a longing in everyone for a personal relationship with God.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

All I know is that, thanks to a sort of habit which has always been ingrained in me, I have never, at any moment of my life, experienced the least difficulty in addressing myself to God as to a supreme Someone.

What I have is a personal relationship with God.

I always had a relationship with God as early as 8 years old. I can remember having these conversations with God. I'd go in the bathroom and look in the mirror and talk to myself, but then I knew I was not the only one present.

LET A MAN THINK AND CARE ever so little about God, he does not therefore exist without God. God is here with him, upholding, warming, delighting, teaching him-making life a good thing to him. God gives him himself, though the man knows it not.

What was it, he wondered for the hundredth time, that enabled Pastor Harris to hear the answers in his heart? What did he mean when he said he felt God’s presence? Steve supposed he could ask Pastor Harris directly, but he doubted that would do any good. How could anyone explain such a thing? It would be like describing colors to someone blind from birth: The words might be understood, but the concept would remain mysterious and private.

I know for me, and what the Bible teaches, I want to have a relationship with Jesus.

To believe in God for me is to feel that there is a God, not a dead one, or a stuffed one, who with irresistible force urges us towards more loving.

The meaning of prayer is that I want to evoke that Divinity within me.

You always have God's undivided attention.

The heart that knows God can find God anywhere.

I don't think you can know God unless you're passionate about him so you're either screaming at him, enraptured with the idea of being around him or feeling him in your life.

Nothing in or of this world measures up to the simple pleasure of experiencing the presence of God.

If we are in Christ the whole basis of our goings is God, not conceptions of God, not ideas of God, but God Himself. We do not need any more ideas about God, the world is full of ideas about God, they are all worthless, because the ideas of God in anyone’s head are of no more use than our own ideas. What we need is a real God, not more ideas about Him.

When I was born, God existed. But I never knew Him. I just never knew Him until Guru Maharaj Ji came into my life, till Guru Maharaj Ji came in my way, and showed me and revealed me that secret. And the day he did that, there it was, I knew God.