Personal relationship with God is not all just the ceremony and not the religion of doing something because you were told that's what you have to do; it's relationships, it's like we have relationships with our families, with our friends, with our loved ones.
You get a sense that it's okay to have good stuff and still claim a relationship with God. So enslaved Africans rethought their predicament in a way that entailed getting good stuff, material stuff, and having a deep relationship with God. There was no contradiction. And the idea just moves forward from there.
Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
It`s important to have a relationship with God. He's the only one that can get down inside of you and heal what needs to be healed inside.
I think there is a longing in everyone for a personal relationship with God.
A healthy relationship with God is built on the internal changes He brings about through Christ.
Christianity is not a religion, it’s a relationship with God through Christ.
Humans alone are created as rational beings in the image of God, capable of a relationship with God and given by him the capacity to understand the universe in which they live.
If you are too busy for prayer, you are too busy for a relationship with God.
I'm connected to religion and that's how I access God. I'm in a relationship with God that can sometimes be informed by religion, but not dependent on religion.
If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.
Freedom is not the ability to do anything we want, whenever we want. Rather, FREEDOM is the ability to live responsibly the truth of our relationship with God and with one another.
For you to have any relationship with God, it must be through His Word by His Spirit.
My relationship with God is as strong as the time and energy I put into connecting with God.
I feel a strong relationship with God and I feel my ties are with him. That's how I honestly feel.
The Bible, and the peace that comes about through a continuous relationship with God are the best ways of knowing His will.
The whole basis for our relationship with God is rooted and grounded in grace, in that which is not earned.
My observation of Christendom is that most of us tend to base our relationship with God on our performance instead of on His grace.
I’ve got this amazing relationship with God that is better than life, itself, so marvelous, so wonderful that everything else can fall apart and I’m okay.
