Quotes About Nearness

O grant, that in the trials by which we must be daily exercised, we may raise upwards our minds to thee, and never cease to think that thou art near us;

I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away.

Near me nothing but distances.

Nah ist Und schwer zu fassen der Gott. Wo aber Gefahr ist, wächst Das Rettende auch.

But as always, the distance between them gave way to a need to be closer.

very close at hand, and at the same

Cumulatively, taking the pre-Easter Jesus seriously as an epiphany of God suggests a massive subversion of the monarchical model of God and the way of life (individually and socially) to which it leads. God is not a distant being but is near at hand. God is not primarily a lawgiver and judge but the compassionate one. The religious life is not about requirements but about relationship.

Life's extremities can bring God's proximity.

We live in such constant nearness to the abyss of past time that the moment is endlessly sucked into.

Their hands, swinging, touched lightly now and then; their nearness was as natural as the June day.

Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.

However matters go, it is our happiness to win new ground daily in Christ's love, and to purchase a new piece of it daily, and to add conquest to conquest, till our Lord Jesus and we be so near each other, that Satan shall not draw a straw or a thread betwixt us.

propinquity.

Thou art never at any time nearer to God than when under tribulation; which He permits for the purification and beautifying of thy soul.

The truth is so much more real when it comes from things that are near.

No one lives any nearer than the town. No one else will come any nearer than that.

One of the things pleasing in God's sight is that his people keep on drawing near to him forever and ever. And so he is working in us this very thing.

You are closer to me than my breath,

Let us keep drawing near to God, and He will draw near to us. Then, as one, we shall reach upward to Him. The churches will be as gardens of the Lord, under His cultivation. God's people will be trees of righteousness, planted by the Lord, and watered with the river of life. [171]

Of all teachings that which presents a far distant God is the nearest to absurdity. Either there is none, or he is nearer to every one of us than our nearest consciousness of self. An unapproachable divinity is the veriest of monsters, the most horrible of human imaginations.

94] Small Prayers In every request, heart and soul and mind ought to supply the low accompaniment, "Thy will be done"; but the making of any request brings us near to Him…. Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon: the thought of Him to whom that prayer goes will purify and correct the desire.

350] The Root of All Rebellion It is because we are not near enough to Thee to partake of thy liberty that we want a liberty of our own different from thine. [351] Two Silly Young Women

the one and only safety in the universe, is the perfect nearness of the Living One! God is being; death is nowhere!

Nearer, My God, to Thee.