Spiritual Distance Quotes

Too many times we think we've fallen too far from God or we're not worthy.

I find that when I get casual in my relationships with divinity and when it seems that no divine ear is listening and no divine voice is speaking, that I am far, far away. If I immerse myself in the scriptures the distance narrows and the spirituality returns. I find myself loving more intensely those whom I must love with all my heart and mind and strength, and loving them more, I find it easier to abide their counsel.

It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm further off from heaven Than when I was a boy.

In my prayers, I want to say: Lord, don’t be far from me, and also don’t come too close. Let me contemplate the stars on the texture of your cloth, but don’t unveil your face to me. Allow me to hear the rivers that you send running, but Lord! Lord! Don’t allow me hearing your voice

If in our Saturday pursuits we're far from God's presence, we're not in very good shape to worship Him on Sunday.

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 modern way with God is to set him at a distance, if not to deny him altogether; and the irony is that modern Christians, preoccupied with maintaining religious practices in an irreligous world, have themselves allowed God to become remote...for churchmen who look at God through the wrong end of the telescope, so reducing him to pigmy proportions, cannot hope to end up as more than pigmy Christians.

The Christianity that had come in my life as a child was all this idea that you're never going to see God. It's like hypocrisy, in a way.

The nearer to the Church, the further from God

He who is near the church is often far from God.

If God bores you, tell Him that He bores you, that you prefer the vilest amusements to His presence, that you only feel at your ease when you are far from Him.

It is a most unhappy state to be at a distance with God: man needs no greater infelicity than to be left to himself.

The farther we go from God, the less we know of peace.

Boredom between two people doesn't come from being together physically. It comes from being apart mentally and spiritually.

One of the side effects of losing intimacy with God is that at some point we stop doing ministry out of imagination and we begin doing it out of memory.

The profoundest distances are never geographical.

It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.

The best way to create emotional or spiritual distance between me and another person is for them to come up to me and go, 'yaassssss.'

Take heed of thinking. The farther you go from the church of Rome, the nearer you are to God.

The farther we get from God, the more the world spirals out of control.

Today the heart of God is an open wound of love. He aches over our distance and preoccupation. He mourns that we do not draw near to Him. He grieves that we have forgotten Him. He weeps over our obsession with muchness and manyness. He longs for our presence.

One's distance from Heaven is in proportion to the measure of one's self-love.

If you feel far from God right now, guess who moved? You’re only a decision away from reconnecting.

The nearer to the church, the further from God.

There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.