Quotes About Nearness

Why do you make our case (which is hell enough, and we have enough to test us in these coming cruel years) so utterly and absolutely rigid? I can take the even harder horror of letting myself melt into feeling again, and knowing it must freeze again, if only I can believe it is making a minute part of time and space better than it would have been by stubbornly staying always apart when we have so little time to be near.

The way to have God near to you is to be humble and broken. As long as we are stubborn and hard and unbending, He will be far from us.

I am still like the prodigal: traveling, preparing speeches, anticipating how it will be when I finally reach my Father's house. But I am, indeed, on my way home. I have left the distant country and come to feel the nearness of love.

No tengo que esperar a que todo vaya bien, sino que puedo celebrar cada pequeño indicio que me dice que el reino está cerca (124)

The God who made the world and everything in it . . . gives all men life and breath and everything else . . . and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. (Acts 17:24–27 NIV)

get just as nigh the water as they possibly

Thus his belief was that in a service where feeling could be restrained it ought to be restrained. The power of God was more likely to be known in a solemn stillness than amid noise and excitement. Silence and an expectant seriousness, born of a realisation of the nearness of God, were striking characteristics of the services at Sandfields.

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.

You are never far removed from God's love and mercy.

Love lives on propinquity but dies on contact.

Having drunk the dregs of Your Love, I am intoxicated beyond recognition. Now, I only pray for the nearness of You so I may advance in my annihilation.

God is closer to you than you think.

Hence monastic prayer, especially meditation and contemplative prayer, is not so much a way to find God as a way of resting in him whom we have found, who loves us, who is near to us, who comes to us to draw us to himself.

He is not actually far from each one of us, for 'in him we live and move and have our being'" (Acts 17:25, 27-28).

The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat.

Slight not what is near though aiming at what is far.

Nearer, my God, to Thee - Nearer to Thee - E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me; Still all my song shall be Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee!

Sometimes the nearness of a storm may deafen us to distant thunder.

This is the closest we will ever come to love.

When you are here, God is near.

Close enough to feel it, but not close enough to burn.

Peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near. Isaiah 57:19.

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The Prophet said that when a person performs Salat, he actually comes nearer to Allah and talks to Him. If you look at how you pray five times a day, you will have a barometer in your hand to find out how much you love Allah. Once