Home › N › Nearness To God And Christ

Nearness To God And Christ: Quotations from Burning Words

Still, still with Thee, when purple morning breaketh, When the bird waketh, and the shadows flee; Fairer than morning, lovelier than the daylight, Dawns the sweet consciousness, - I am with Thee.— H. B. STOWE

My Christian brethren, if the crowd of difficulties which stand between your souls and God succeed in keeping you away, all is lost. Right into the Presence you must force your way, with no concealment, baring the soul with all its ailments before Him, asking, not the arrest of the consequences of sin, but the cleansing of the conscience "from dead works to serve the living God," so that if you must suffer, you will suffer as a forgiven man.— F. W. ROBERTSON

Seekest thou a place at my right hand? Nay, I give thee a more wondrous dignity. "To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne."— ALEXANDER MACLAREN

Thou wilt draw nigh! Father - it is no dream that Thou art near - No dream that, in my sin and misery, I may look up to Thee,- May hide beneath the shadow of Thy wings, From all the restlessness of outward things, And from my own heart's self-accusing fears - For Thou art nigh.— HETTY BOWMAN

66 as O, to have the soul bathed all day long in this thought, the pebble in the willow brook" until the words come like the tears, because the heart is full, and we cannot help it; to feel, in the darkest hour, that there is an unseen Spectator whose eyes rest on us like morning on the flowers; and that in the severest sorrow, we can sink into a presence full of love and sympathy, deeper than ever breathed from earth or sky or loving hearts - a presence in which all fears and anxieties melt away as ice-crystals in the warm ocean. This is heaven.— EDWARD THOMSON

Let us keep to Christ, and cling to Him, and hang on Him, so that no power can remove us. -— MARTIN LUTHER

Nearer, O Christ, to Thee. Nearer to the open side; nearer to the eyes that wept in love because I was a sinner; nearer to the scarred hand that wields the sceptre of dominion.— T. M. EDDY

It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.— ST. AUGUSTINE

With Thee in shady solitudes I walk, With Thee in busy, crowded cities talk ; In every creature own Thy forming power, In each event Thy providence adore.— A. L. BARBAULD

When you have honestly and penitently sought out Christ, and confessed your sins to Him, and put yourself wholly in His hands, then stay there. Follow Him. Keep close to Him and Him alone. In your store, in your shop, in your field, in your home, or wherever you are, be ever saying, "Now, Jesus, Lead me! Teach me Thy way! Hold fast to my hand! "— T. L. CUYLER

Blessed God, pity the soul whose extremest horror is the doom of an eternal departure from Thee. Draw my spirit into the holiest and the nearest union with Thyself that is possible while it dwells in this flesh And let me here commence that commence that delightful residence and converse with God, which nor death, nor judgment shall ever destroy, nor shall a long eternity ever eternity ever put a period to it.— ELIZABETH ROWE