Quotes About Nearness

Die Stunde unseres Scheiterns ist die Stunde der unerhörten Nähe Gottes und gerade nicht der Ferne.

Le bonheur se trouve souvent plus près de nous qu'on ne l'imagine.

If we seem to get no good by attempting to draw near to Him, we may be sure we will get none by keeping away from Him.

Most of the time what you are looking for is closer than you think

Wide awake to the presence of God, I realized I had been so focused on asking why a good God allowed bad things to happen that I was missing out on the nearness of God all along. In becoming preoccupied with the why, I was missing the who.

To hunger and thirst after righteousness is when nothing in the world can fascinate us so much as being near God.

Although we are miles apart, the thought and touch of you lives within my heart. It is for that reason my dear you will always feel near, even though we are thousands of miles APART!

Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.

The Prophet also spoke of the supreme degree insofar as it can be reached during life on earth, and this saying is one of those which are called Holy traditions because they transmit the direct words of God: "My slave ceaseth not to draw near unto Me with devotions of his free will until I love him; and when I love him I am the hearing with which he heareth and the sight with which he seeth and the hand with which he graspeth and the foot on which he walketh.

When God's judgment is avoided, God also flees, but when it is received, He, too, becomes near. For "in trouble You have enlarged for me" (Ps. 4:1), and "a Help in the troubles that have come upon us" (Ps. 46:1). And Ps. 9:9, "A Helper in due time in tribulation." And there is no lie in this, but it becomes a lie, if you flee from God's judgment.

Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away; and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart.

But as for me, the nearness of God is my good; I have made the Lord God my refuge, that I may tell of all Your works. Psalm 73:21–28 NASB

Sure,but that don't mean I've got to go far away.On your own has nothing to do with distance.

Doctrina: Hay muchos en el mundo que son solo casi cristianos; muchos que están cerca del cielo, pero nunca están lo suficientemente cerca; muchos que están en medio de un poco de salvación, pero nunca disfrutarán de la más mínima salvación; tienen el cielo a la vista y, sin embargo, nunca verán a Dios.

Happiness is often somewhere near us, not in the far places!

God is equally near to everything and every place and is equally ready to give himself, so far as in him lies, and therefore a person shall know him aright who knows how to see him the same, under all circumstances.

We are accepted because of Jesus, and that's the ground of our security. Now it is our holy privilege to walk worthy of that high calling, drawing near to God in confidence, "with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water" (Heb. 10:22).

There is nothing that the nearness of Jesus will not cure.

O Lord, how good it is for me to know Thee; how essentially necessary it is for me to draw nigh to Thee. How can I falter when Thou art my Life!

Lord, our God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of Whom Jesus is the very image, I look to Thee and make my prayer. Bless me this hour with the feeling of Thy presence and the glow of Thy nearness, for I do trust Thee and hope only in Thee.

God's purpose in controlling the details of your life (the exact length of it and the locations where you live) is so that at any moment in the middle of your unfolding story, you can reach out and touch him, because his rule makes him very near to every one of us. What each of us really needs in our finite and faltering humanness is not so much the success of our plans, but God himself.

The night folded around them with a sweetness and poignancy heightened by the new pale stars that prickled silver fire in the water of the lily ponds, by the scented winds, and by the nearness of each other.

But as for me, it is good to draw near to God. I have made the Lord GOD my refuge, that I may proclaim all Your works.

Wail, for the Day of the LORD is near; it will come as destruction from the Almighty.