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Closer To God Quotes

Like everyone else on the planet, you believed that time would teach you to grow closer to God. But time doesn't teach; it merely brings us a sense of weariness and of growing older.
- Paulo Coelho

Despite all my efforts, I still can't honestly say that I feel closer to God and to myself.
- Paulo Coelho

That's because like everyone else on the planet, you believed that time would teach you to grow closer to God. But time doesn't teach; it merely brings us a sense of weariness and of growing older.
- Paulo Coelho

We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.
- Francis Chan

When you bring all your doubts and fears to God, you'll find the reason to trust Him. And as you trust Him, you will draw closer to Him. Best of all, no one who draws closer to God can possibly remain unchanged.
- Pauline Creeden

Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.
- Cyril Cusack

He entered the elevator and together they moved closer to god
- Philip K Dick

Because God is with you all the time, no place is any closer to God than the place where you are right now.
- Rick Warren

Suffering often draws us closer to God. Instead of being a sign of God's punishment or distance, suffering can purify us, lead us into the heart of God, and transform our souls.
- Allen R Hunt

Love is as simple as the absence of self given to another. God, when invited, fills the void of any unrequited love; hence loving is how one is drawn closer to God no matter its most horrific repercussions.
- Criss Jami

It is not easy to be at peace in today's troubled world. Necessarily peace is a personal acquisition. ... It can be attained only through maintaining constantly a repentant attitude, seeking forgiveness of sins both large and small, and thus coming ever closer to God.
- Spencer W Kimball

Suffering will get you great footage. I don't know about closer to God. Although there have been times when I've suffered to the point where I think I might be about to meet him.
- Johnny Knoxville

I am trying to get closer to God.
- Lenny Kravitz

I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does.
- Samantha Morton

Dare to love and to be a real friend. The love you give and receive is a reality that will lead you closer and closer to God as well as those whom God has given you to love.
- Henri Nouwen

Given a choice between a folly and a sacrament, one should always choose the follybecause we know a sacrament will not bring us closer to god and there's always the chance that a folly will.
- Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

The reverend insists we occupy the first pew. He rang us up not long ago, tipsy-- he's a tippler-- saying that our faces brought him closer to God. And it's true, we're terribly good-looking people.
- David Sedaris

I have so many things to work on, and so many ways that I fail. But that's what grace is all about. and I constantly wake up every morning trying to get better, trying to improve, trying to walk closer to God.
- Tim Tebow

Strange how it is that men never act crueler than when they're fighting for the sake of an idea. We've been killing since Cain over who stands closer to god. It seems to me that cruelty is just in the way of things. You drive yourself mad if you take it all personal. Those who hurt you don't have the power over you they would like. That's why they do what they do.
- Marcel Theroux

To climb ever closer to God is not to move away from our troubled and troubling neighbors, but closer to them.
- Jonathan Wilson Hartgrove

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