You are as close to God as you choose to be.
It is not he who knows most, nor he who hears most, nor yet he who talks most, but he who exercises grace most, who has most communion with God.
For you to have any relationship with God, it must be through His Word by His Spirit.
True intimacy with God always brings humility.
Two things make a relationship providential: when we hear from God through someone and when we see God in someone.
Over the years as I went through a lot more things, I've gotten closer and closer to God as far as praying a lot more, being into the Word.
There's no greater lifestyle and no greater happiness than that of having a continual conversation with God.
Acquaint thyself with God.
The way to be with God in every season is to strive to be near Him every week and each day.
Obey God in the things he shows you, and instantly the next thing is opened up. God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already...this chapter brings out the delight of real friendship with God.
Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man. It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
Be rightly related to God, find your joy there, and out of you will flow rivers of living water.
The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.
Pastors need to find their place in the community of believers by spending time with God.
People who are close to God cultivate a personal intimacy with Him like a good gardener cultivates beautiful flowers.
The first purpose of prayer is to know God.
Even as a very small child I used to talk to God.
We need to attend diligently to the state of our soul, and to deal fervently and effectively with God about it.
We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.
There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful, than that of a continual conversation with God; those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it.
He who understands nature walks close with God.
Little did I know that the sport I loved and the skills I learned would later play a role in my relationship with God.
A habit of devout fellowship with God is the spring of all our life, and the strength of it.
