God Connection Quotes

I never was in the Nation of Islam... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me and God.

My prayer life and my connection with God are on the highest level.

I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman.

God is my best friend. I talk to God every day. And no one can tell me how to talk to God - not no imam, not no priest, not no rabbi, no pastor.

The purpose of prayer is not to influence God to grant you special favors, but rather to remind yourself that you are always connected to God.

There is a practice that is most powerful in keeping us united with God. That practice is the constant recollection of His presence.

There is nothing noble about suffering except the love and forgiveness with which we meet it. Many believe that if they are suffering they are closer to God, but I have met very few who could keep their heart open to their suffering enough for that to be true. (124)

Religion should be about your relationship with God, not what the church says you can and can't do.

I began to expand my personal service in the church, and to search more diligently for a closer relationship with God among my different business, professional and political interests.

I have been the most religious person since I was 2 years old. I always felt this crazy connection to God.

Jesus is an historical figure for me, and he's also a bridge between God and man, in the Christian faith, and one that I think is powerful precisely because he serves as that means of us reaching something higher.

In community, where you have all the affection you could ever dream of, you feel that there is a place where even community cannot reach. That's a very important experience. In that loneliness, which is like a dark night of the soul, you learn that God is greater than community.

I came from God, and I'm going back to God, and I won't have any gaps of death in the middle of my life.

Religion is not an end in itself. One's union with God is the ultimate goal.

I was in my late thirties and decided my intention in life had nothing to do with the acquiring of material things, but rather it was now my intention to experience the evolution of my own soul and to grow spiritually. I wanted to come to know the highest truths of life and to express those truths in action, through myself. I wanted to become the grandest version of the greatest idea I ever held about who I am in regards to my relationship with God.

We all have that power to have a soul that magnifies God.

...I should have people around bugging me and getting under my skin because without people I could not grow - I could not grow in God, and I could not grow as a human.

When I put my faith in Jesus Christ as my savior, and I asked him to forgive and to come into my life, and He does - from that moment forward I have established a personal relationship with God that I have to develop, you know, through Bible reading and prayer, and living my life for him.

Only by being both deity and humanity could Jesus Christ bridge the gap between where God is.

If my parents hadn't been made to do that from living in the Bible Belt, maybe it wouldn't be something that matters to me - maybe I wouldn't even know how to talk to God.

When we open ourselves to exploring our creativity, we open ourselves to God: good, orderly direction.

Jesus represents the possibilities of a new dimension of existence that transcends all the boundaries that restrict us from opening ourselves to God and allowing this source of love to flow through us.

What appears to be a curse can be a blessing if we simply appreciate the inner essence of the possibility of how to connect to God in that situation.

Real security can only be found in that which can never be taken from you - your relationship with God.