Quotes about Relationship
Nine times out of ten, declension from God begins in the neglect of private prayer.
— Charles Spurgeon
To many, God is not someone you know but something you try to get off your back.
— Chris Fabry
To be used of God. Is there anything more encouraging, more fulfilling? Perhaps not, but there is something more basic: to meet with God.
— Charles Swindoll
If our faith can live without God, it is not divinely created. If God had begotten it, it would wait upon Him as the flowers wait upon the dew.
— Charles Spurgeon
Instead of asking what it feels like to follow God or be used by God, we should be asking who God is, and whether we really know Him. Everything else will take care of itself.
— Donald Miller
I began to expand my personal service in the church, and to search more diligently for a closer relationship with God among my different business, professional and political interests.
— Jimmy Carter
How does God deal with your bitter heart? He reminds you that what you have is more important than what you don't have. You still have your relationship with God. No one can take that.
— Max Lucado
God can only be of service to me and I to him, not in the past, nor in the future, but only right now in this moment.
— Steven James
Christians necessarily believe we depend on God for everything-a prayerless Christian, then, is a contradiction in terms.
— Timothy Keller
Prayer is both conversation and encounter with God.
— Timothy Keller
A triune God would call us to converse with him . . . because he wants to share the joy he has. Prayer is our way of entering into the happiness of God himself.
— Timothy Keller
To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule- it is a failure to treat God as God.
— Timothy Keller