Communion with God

“Christ dwells in that heart most eminently that hath emptied itself of itself.”

“Let those be thy choicest companions who have made Christ their chief companion.”

“Communion with God makes bitter things sweet, and massive things light.”

“Since God is content with Himself alone, if you have Him, you may be content with Him alone.”

“Christ cannot love me better than he doth; I think I cannot love Christ better than I do; I am swallowed up in God.”

“In the time of His presence we have the sense of His love to us. But in the time of His absence then He sees, and we ourselves have the sense of, our love to Him.”

“Would you love Christ, use him much, and then more you will prize him, and more you will love him.”

“As a tender and loving friend is grieved at the unkindness of his friend, so is it with this tender and loving Spirit, who hath chosen our hearts for a habitation to dwell in.”

“For sinners to have fellowship with the infinitely holy God is truly astonishing.”

“We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love.”

“Lay down then your reasonings; take up the love of the Father upon a pure act of believing, and that will open your soul to let it out unto the Lord in the communion of love.”

“We speak much of God, and talk of Him, His ways and His works; the truth is, we know very little of Him.”

“For, as David says, Ps. 14, ‘God is in the generation of the just.’ God is in every one of them; but when there are more together, there is more of God among them, and he shines more.”

“To stand in that circle means to be a party in the covenant, to live out of a consciousness of the covenant and to drink out of the fullness of the covenant.”

“We may go to the Lord's table every Sunday of our lives, and yet never eat Christ's body and drink Christ's blood by faith.”

“As God is ever near to us, "for in him we live, and move, and have our being," we are permitted to hold intercourse with him at all times, and in all places.”

“O that I might behold Your heart-ravishing smiles!" "Lord, I am Yours and You are mine!”

“I will add this farther, that wheresoever on good title we can say, ‘I am God’s,’ there is a reflect act of the soul to say, ‘God is mine’.”

“So that our seeking of God is not only a duty, and beneficial to us, but it is a high privilege purchased by the blood of Christ.”

“He who loves God, walks with God, dwells with God, is like God.”

“It is the blood that emboldens us to draw near to God, and justifies God in drawing near to us. 'Let us draw near' is the voice of the blood, speaking both from the altar and the mercy seat.”

“O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water.”

“Subsequent thereto, however, the godly will be ushered into the third heaven—the paradise of God—by the King, in order to have the eternal satisfaction of joy in immediate fellowship with God.”

“If you could only cure your disquiet, if you could but quiet your own hearts and get them into a better frame of contentedness under God's hand in affliction, then you would find God's presence with you.”

“Jehovah is the infinitely real and true and personal: and it is with Him as such that we have to do.”

“They that be in heaven love to see the face of God, they joy in it.”

“Look, as the bleeding of a vein cools, eases, and refreshes a feverish body; so the opening of the soul by acts of communion with God, gives sensible ease to a burdened soul: griefs are eased by groans heavenward.”

“To keep the heart then, is carefully to preserve it from sin, which disorders it; and maintain that spiritual frame which fits it for a life of communion with God.”

“How zealously did I seek the Lord at that time and how abundantly was the Spirit of prayer poured out upon me!”

“Now wherever God dwells, he hath taken up his seat to dwell for ever; he will never be put out of possession.”

“They cannot desire his coming to them, so much as he desires their coming to him.”

“And as moral virtues fit persons to have communion with men, so grace only qualifies men to have communion with Christ and saints. 4.”

“Though his purpose was that of redeeming a world, and though he knew that his personal ministry on earth would be very short, yet he never neglected communion with God.”

“Lord, I am come, in obedience to thy command; thou saidst, Seek ye my face, thou biddest me come to thee, and wilt thou put away thy servant in anger?”

“It is the nature of love, to desire union to the object beloved, especially of this love to Christ; and, this union being attained, the desires are after communion with Christ, converse and fellowship with Him.”

“The word notes to us thus much: that God will not dwell with a humble man as a wayfaring man dwells with his relations—a few nights and then away.”

“What endeavours to walk with God are found upon them, or seen in their ways?”

“It is a strange expression concerning the presence of God, in that he makes his people his habitation.”

“Rejoice at the approach of the day, as a day wherein we have a prize for our souls, and may enjoy much of God’s presence.”

“Then are Christians like those that drink wine in bowls, merry and glad; for that they have drank into the Spirit, and had their souls refreshed with the sweet gales and strong wine thereof.”

“That true faith, wherever it is, worketh and frameth the heart to friendlike dispositions unto God, and brings forth friendlike carriage in the life towards God.”

“Can you go whole weeks, months, and never speak to him by secret and intimate prayer, so as to take him alone, as you would do a friend, into a corner, and there pour out your heart before him, and tell him all your secrets?”

“When business is over, and everything calm, it is good to take a turn with God in the evening.”

“O cruel time, that tormenteth us, and suspendeth our dearest enjoyments that we wait for, when we shall be bathed and steeped, soul and body, down in the depths of this Love of Loves!”

“Who, almost, hath prepared his heart to walk with God as he ought? who considers whether his walking be such as it ought to be?”

“Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth." Rest not until you are enabled to look more within the veil; and fix your hearts more steadfastly on the only permanent realities in the universe.”

“Will not this therefore make us seek the main—the food that endures to everlasting life; and labour to be in Christ more and more, labour to cherish communion with Christ, that everlasting bond?”

“So doth Jesus Christ spread forth beams of truth into believers’ hearts, and by them comes into their hearts, as the sun is said to do; when the beams of it come into a house, you say the sun comes in.”

“And therefore the Lord says, “Let him that rejoiceth, rejoice in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me.”

“It pleaseth Him to dine and sup with His afflicted prisoner.”

“The treasures of a saint are the presence of God, the favor of God, union and communion with God, the pardon of sin, the joy of the Spirit, and the peace of conscience.”

“Love in its proper exercise gives a mutual inhabitation unto God and believers.”

“If God be ours, then the soul resteth in it; for God filleth the soul, and quiets the soul, and hath always fresh comforts for the soul, infinite still to all eternity.”

“Secondly, heaven is the place of God’s residence, because he communicates himself most there.”

“Nothing can be so ruinous unto our profession as once to suppose it is an easy matter, a thing of course, to maintain our peace with God.”

“On the blessed Sabbath, God intends to have sweet communion with you; he seems to say to you, as Christ to Zacchaeus, ‘Make haste and come down, for this day I must abide at thy house.’ Luke 19: 5.”

“Nay, He calls unto us standing without, “Open unto me my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled.”

“It is an argument of a good conscience to come oft into the presence of God.”

“Man is lord of the creation; nothing below him can be fit for his converse, nothing above him ofiers itself to his converse but God.”

“As the people of God call God their habitation, so God calls his church his habitation.”

“What a heaven upon earth must be enjoyed in fellowship with him!”

“Without holiness no man can see God; that is, so see him as to be happy in him.”

“So you should carry along and bear along in your eye the sight and knowledge of Christ, so that at least a presence of Him accompanies you, which faith makes.”

“And what an encouragement is this to answer again, to open our hearts to receive him, together with the elements! to embrace Christ, join with Christ, and then to keep him when we have him!”

“To know the wonders of earth is good; to know the wonders of heaven is better and nobler still; but to know HIM who made, and who fills both earth and heaven, is more blessed, more excellent, more glorious, by far.”

“We may be exceedingly glad in the duties of religion, and find it good to draw near to God.”

“What should a Child love most but to be in the presence of his Father?”

“For when we think of the promise which is the central element of the covenant, ‘I will be your God, and ye shall be my people’, there is necessarily involved, as we have seen, mutuality in the highest sense.”

“Of all devils, it is the idle devil which keeps men most out of their closets.”

“One hour's communion with God in one's closet is to be preferred before the greatest and best company in the world.”

“Time spent in heavenly employments is no time lost from worldly business.”

“Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the heart or soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Holy Spirit, for such things as God hath promised.”

“There is in prayer an unbosoming of a man's self, an opening of the heart to God, an affectionate pouring out of the soul in requests, sighs, and groans.”

“Communion consists in giving and receiving. Until the love of the Father be received, we have no communion with him therein.”

“Few can carry up their hearts and minds to this height by faith, as to rest their souls in the love of the Father; they live below it, in the troublesome region of hopes and fears, storms and clouds. All here is serene and quiet.”