Alone With God Quotes:

Tell me what time you spend alone with God... and I'll tell you how spiritual you are.

- Leonard Ravenhill

topic: Spiritual, Alone With God

One of the best gifts we can give ourselves is time alone with God.

- Joyce Meyer

source: Joyce Meyer (2009). “Never Give Up: Relentless Determination to Overcome Life's Challenges”, p.75, Hachette UK

topic: Giving, Alone With God, Alone Time, Me Alone, Best Gift

When someone thinks that to develop a holy life he must always be alone with God, he is no longer of any use to others.

- Oswald Chambers

source: Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.128, Discovery House

topic: Thinking, Use, Alone With God, Holy Life

We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.

- Charles Stanley

topic: Strength, Prayer, Tired, Spending Time Alone, Stanley

We need silence to be alone with God, to speak to him, to listen to him, to ponder his words deep in our hearts. We need to be alone with God in silence to be renewed and transformed. Silence gives us a new outlook on life. In it we are filled with the energy of God himself that makes us do all things with joy.

- Mother Teresa

source: Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

topic: Spiritual, Heart, Outlook On Life, Alone With God

Snuggle in God's arms. When you are hurting, when you feel lonely, left out. let Him cradle you, comfort you, reassure you of His all-sufficient power and love.

- Kay Arthur

source: Kay Arthur (1995). “My Savior, My Friend: A Daily Devotional”, Harvest House Pub

topic: Lonely, Hurt, Loneliness, Left Out, Power And Love

Great eagles fly alone; great lions hunt alone; great souls walk alone-alone with God. Such loneliness is hard to endure, and impossible to enjoy unless God accompanied. Prophets are lone men; they walk alone, pray alone and God makes them alone.

- Leonard Ravenhill

topic: Loneliness, Men, Eagles, Alone With God, Great Souls

The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord.

- Charles Stanley

topic: Inspirational, Integrity, Character, Alone With God

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

- Saint Augustine

topic: Love, Faith, God, Seeking God, Inspirational Death

The soul is never less alone than when it is alone with God.

- Samuel Chadwick

topic: Soul, Alone With God

Be much alone with God, and take time to get thoroughly acquainted. Converse over everything with Him. Unburden yourself wholly -every thought, feeling, wish, plan, doubt- to Him...He wants not merely to be on good terms with you, but to be intimate.

- Horatius Bonar

topic: Christian, Feelings, Doubt, Intimate Friends, Connecting With God

It has been said that no great work in literature or in science was ever wrought by a man who did not love solitude. We may lay it down as an elemental principle of religion, that no large growth in holiness was ever gained by one who did not take time to be often long alone with God.

- Austin Phelps

source: AUSTIN PHELPS (1860). “THE STILL HOUR”, p.93

topic: Prayer, Men, Long, Alone With God

It is better to be alone with God. His friendship will not fail me, nor His counsel, nor His love. In His strength, I will dare and dare and dare until I die.

- Joan of Arc

topic: His Love, Failing, Dare, Alone With God

I am perfectly confident that the man who does not spend hours alone with God will never know the anointing of the Holy Spirit.

- Oswald J. Smith

topic: Men, Anointing, Doe, Alone With God

If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies, or talking to friends, rather than just sitting alone with God and embracing Him, sharing His cares and His burdens, weeping and rejoicing with Him, then how are you going to handle forever and ever in His presence? You'd be bored to tears in heaven, if you're not ecstatic about God now!

- Keith Green

topic: Reading, Heart, Talking, Reading Novels, Alone With God

Shut the world out, withdraw from all worldly thoughts and occupations, and shut yourself in alone with God, to pray to Him in secret. Let this be your chief object in prayer, to realize the presence of your heavenly Father.

- Andy Murray

topic: Prayer, Father, Secret, Alone With God

The great souls who became mighty in prayer and rejoiced to spend three and four hours a day alone with God were once beginners.

- Samuel Chadwick

topic: Prayer, Soul, Three, Alone With God, Great Souls

God has spoken very boldly about his desire to be a presence in our lives. If I want to heal the ache and loneliness in my own life, one of the things I need to do is get away, alone with God. . . . In the silence God will speak to you most powerfully. Too often his words to us get muffled, lost, or covered by the crowd of many noises both inside and outside of us. We must have a quiet heart in order to hear God's distinctive message to us.

- Tim Hansel

topic: God, Loneliness, Heart, Inside And Outside, My Own Life

You can't fake it when you're alone with God, you know.

- Jim Bakker

source: "The Best of Interviews With Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye Messner". “CNN Larry King Weekend”, www.cnn.com. June 24, 2001.

topic: Fake People, Fake, Alone With God

Do not expect to grow in holiness if you spend little time alone with God and do not take His Word seriously.

- Joel Beeke

topic: Holiness, Littles, Alone Time, Little Time, Alone With God

Look at your ministry as a marathon not a sprint - build deep foundations of intimacy with God and never let your public schedule get fuller than your time alone with God.

- Vicky Beeching

topic: Ministry, Looks, Schedules, Alone With God

Q. What is your view of the daily discipline of the Christian life - the need for taking time to be alone with God? Lewis: "We have our New Testament regimental orders upon the subject. I would take it for granted that everyone who becomes a Christian would undertake this practice. It is enjoined upon us by Our Lord; and since they are his commands, I believe in following them. It is always just possible that Jesus Christ meant what he said when He told us to seek the secret place and to close the door.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Christian, Jesus, Believe, Daily Discipline, Alone With God

There are few professing Christians, it may be feared, who strive to imitate Christ in the matter of private devotion. There is abundance of hearing, reading, talking, professing, visiting, contributing to the poor and teaching at schools. But is there, together with all this, a due proportion of private prayer? Are believing men and women sufficiently careful to be frequently alone with God?

- J. C. Ryle

topic: Christian, Prayer, Believe, Alone With God

The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself with people. But the man who learns, in solitude and recollection, to be at peace with his own loneliness, and to prefer its reality to the illusion of merely natural companionship, comes to know the invisible companionship of God. Such a one is alone with God in all places, and he alone truly enjoys the companionship of other men, because he loves them in God in Whom their presence is not tiresome, and because of Whom his own love for them can never know satiety.

- Thomas Merton

topic: Wisdom, Lonely, Loneliness, Satiety, Alone With God

When alone with God, be alone with Him.

- Samuel Chadwick

topic: Alone With God

The path of the seeker is full of pitfalls and temptations, and the seeker must walk it alone with God. I would recommend that you keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights, so that you may attract only good. Concentrate on giving so that you may open yourself to receiving; concentrate on living according to the light you have so that you may open yourself to more light; get as much light as possible through the inner way.

- Peace Pilgrim

source: Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.131, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

topic: Light, Feet, Giving, Alone With God

For Ragamuffins, God's name is Mercy. We see our darkness as a prized possession because it drives us into the heart of God. Without mercy our darkness would plunge us into despair - for some, self-destruction. Time alone with God reveals the unfathomable depths of the poverty of the spirit. We are so poor that even our poverty is not our own: It belongs to the mysterium tremendum of a loving God.

- Brennan Manning

topic: Heart, Self, Names, Alone With God, Prized Possessions

My soul often mourned of more time and opportunity to be alone with God

- David Brainerd

topic: Opportunity, Soul, More Time, Alone With God

The men that will change the colleges and seminaries here represented are the men that will spend the most time alone with God... It takes time for the fires to burn. It takes time for God to draw near and for us to know that He is there. It takes time to assimilate His truth.

- John Mott

topic: Prayer, College, Men, Intercessory Prayer, Prevailing Prayer

There is a loneliness more precious than life. There is a freedom more precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God.

- Rumi

topic: Spiritual, Loneliness, World, Alone With God, Rumi Poetry

We are so used to multi-tasking. 2014 was probably the most productive year of my life...But I noticed during the last couple of months when I would get alone with God it was hard to do one thing at a time.

- Francis Chan

topic: Leadership, Christian, Couple, Multi Tasking, Alone With God

In churches, we see that getting people to show up for a prayer meeting is a lot more difficult than a concert or service project or just about anything else. So we were thinking, we're stepping into some unknown territory here that could be as profitable, or it could be a box-office flop, but there was a rightness about it. And so this whole idea of the war room being like a spiritual warfare room, a place of prayer where you get alone with God and you're making your decisions and you're dealing with your issues first in prayer.

- Stephen Kendrick

source: Source: www.patheos.com

topic: Spiritual, Prayer, War, Spiritual Warfare, Prayer Meeting

I feel it is far better to begin with God, to see His face first, to get my soul near Him before it is near another. In general it is best to have at least one hour alone with God before engaging in anything else.

- Edward McKendree Bounds

topic: Prayer, Soul, Faces, Conversations With God, Alone With God

Your god may be your little Christian habit - the habit of prayer or Bible reading at certain times of your day. Watch how your Father will upset your schedule if you begin to worship your habit instead of what the habit symbolizes. We say, 'I can't do that right now; this is my time alone with God.' No, this is your time alone with your habit.

- Oswald Chambers

source: Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.37, Discovery House

topic: Faith, Christian, Prayer, Bible Reading, Alone With God

People sometimes ask me if I do not feel lonely on holidays. How can I feel lonely when I live in the constant awareness of God's presence? I love and I enjoy being with people, but when I am alone I enjoy being alone with God.

- Peace Pilgrim

source: Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.48, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

topic: God, Lonely, Holiday, Alone With God, God's Presence

For those of you who are seeing the spiritual life, I recommend these four daily practices: Spend time alone each day in receptive silence. When angry, or afflicted with any negative emotion, take time to be alone with God. (Do not talk with people who are angry; they are irrational and cannot be reasoned with. If you or they are angry, it is best to leave and pray.) Visualize God's light each day and send it to someone who needs help. Exercise the body, it is the temple of the soul.

- Peace Pilgrim

topic: Spiritual, Exercise, Practice, Alone With God, Negative Emotions

When a man says he must develop a holy life alone with God, he is of no more use to his fellow men: he puts himself on a pedestal, away from the common run of men.........If we are abandoned to Jesus, we have no ends of our own to serve.

- Oswald Chambers

topic: Running, Jesus, Men, Alone With God, Holy Life

In the moment when you make the least petition to God, though it be but a silent wish that he may approve you, or add one moment to your life,--do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought? In that act, the soul stands alone with God, and Jesus is no more present to your mind than your brother or your child.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2905, Delphi Classics

topic: God, Jesus, Brother, Alone With God

If the Church would have her face shine, she must go up into the mount, and be alone with God. If she would have her courts of worship resound with eucharistic praises, she must open her eyes, and see humanity lying lame at the temple gates, and heal it in the miraculous name of Jesus.

- Frederic Dan Huntington

source: "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 145, 1895.

topic: Jesus, Lying, Eye, Eucharistic, Alone With God