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title: "373 Relationship God Quotes by 281 authors"
description: "Browse 373 Relationship God quotes by 281 authors. Discover the best Relationship God sayings and thoughts."
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> [A relationship with God is the most important relationship you can have.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/a-relationship-with-god-is-the-most-important-relationship-you-can-3/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“We all deserve to have a relationship with God”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sunday-adelaja/we-all-deserve-to-have-a-relationship-with-god/)

[Sunday Adelaja](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sunday-adelaja/)

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> [A relationship with god is best relationship you can have!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/a-relationship-with-god-is-best-relationship-you-can-have/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/religion-is-not-man-s-relationship-to-god-it-is-man-s-relationship-to/)

[Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/)

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> [I have a really great relationship with God. I pray. I read the Bible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hunter-tylo/i-have-a-really-great-relationship-with-god-i-pray-i-read-the-bible/)

[Hunter Tylo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hunter-tylo/)

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> [“Repentance is the first step on the path back to your relationship with God.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-george/repentance-is-the-first-step-on-the-path-back-to-your-relationship/)

[Jim George](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-george/)

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> [“Be disciplined and effective in your relationship with God”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sunday-adelaja/be-disciplined-and-effective-in-your-relationship-with-god/)

[Sunday Adelaja](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sunday-adelaja/)

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> [The most important relationship you can have is with GOD!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-most-important-relationship-you-can-have-is-with-god/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Your intimate, personal relationship with god is the source of your strength, when things are going wrong.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/senora-roy/your-intimate-personal-relationship-with-god-is-the-source-of-your/)

[Senora Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/senora-roy/)

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> [“Your spiritual and physical growth depends mainly on your time management and personal relationship with God”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sunday-adelaja/your-spiritual-and-physical-growth-depends-mainly-on-your-time/)

[Sunday Adelaja](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sunday-adelaja/)

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> [I want it all. A strong relationship with God, a great career, a loving husband, and healthy, respectful, and beautiful children.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/i-want-it-all-a-strong-relationship-with-god-a-great-career-a-loving/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Two things I take very seriously in life. My golf game and my relationship with God. Neither one is simple](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cheryl-ladd/two-things-i-take-very-seriously-in-life-my-golf-game-and-my/)

[Cheryl Ladd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cheryl-ladd/)

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> [“It is because people live in the things they possess instead of in their relationship to God that God seems at times…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grace-livingston-hill/it-is-because-people-live-in-the-things-they-possess-instead-of-in/)

[Grace Livingston Hill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grace-livingston-hill/)

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> [Worldly relationship are just temporary. Make your relationship with God stronger, because when everyone gives up on you He's right by your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/drusila-t/worldly-relationship-are-just-temporary-make-your-relationship-with/)

[Drusila T](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/drusila-t/)

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> [Your relationship with your best friend didn't come overnight, and your relationship with God is no different. It requires time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/craig-williams/your-relationship-with-your-best-friend-didn-t-come-overnight-and/)

[Craig Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/craig-williams/)

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> [Over the years, my relationship with God has changed my life for the better - it's grown me up, given me a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yvonne-orji/over-the-years-my-relationship-with-god-has-changed-my-life-for-the/)

[Yvonne Orji](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yvonne-orji/)

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> [“Satan hates healthy relationships, because he despises everything that is from the hand of God. He wants to destroy our relationship with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/debra-fileta/satan-hates-healthy-relationships-because-he-despises-everything-that/)

[Debra Fileta](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/debra-fileta/)

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> [On the Sabbath day, we are remembering that my relationship with God did not begin with what I've done, it is not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-driscoll/on-the-sabbath-day-we-are-remembering-that-my-relationship-with-god/)

[Mark Driscoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-driscoll/)

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> [The relationship between individuals or communities and the environment ultimately stems from their relationship with God. When ‘man turns his back on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/the-relationship-between-individuals-or-communities-and-the/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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> [So in prison basically is when I started to build a good relationship with God and I started praying a lot. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anuel-aa/so-in-prison-basically-is-when-i-started-to-build-a-good-relationship/)

[Anuel AA](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anuel-aa/)

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> [I have a relationship with God. I do believe in God, The Son, and Holy Ghost. But I respect everybody, and as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tee-grizzley/i-have-a-relationship-with-god-i-do-believe-in-god-the-son-and-holy/)

[Tee Grizzley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tee-grizzley/)

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> [The most important thing for me is having a relationship with God. To know that the owner, the creator of the universe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-carson/the-most-important-thing-for-me-is-having-a-relationship-with-god-to/)

[Benjamin Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/benjamin-carson/)

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> [“For instance, prayer is a wall that keeps us in a right relationship with God, community keeps us in a right relationship…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-fryling/for-instance-prayer-is-a-wall-that-keeps-us-in-a-right-relationship/)

[Robert A. Fryling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-fryling/)

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> [Pride adversely affects all our relationships - our relationship with God and His servants, between husband and wife, parent and child, employer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ezra-taft-benson/pride-adversely-affects-all-our-relationships-our-relationship-with/)

[Ezra Taft Benson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ezra-taft-benson/)

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> [“In fact, my relationship to myself must be at all times a mediated one: I can only live my life through Christ,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rousas-john-rushdoony/in-fact-my-relationship-to-myself-must-be-at-all-times-a-mediated-one/)

[Rousas John Rushdoony](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rousas-john-rushdoony/)

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> [“At the heart of Christian theology there lies a personal relationship with God. Like all personal relationships, it is based on a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-l-bray/at-the-heart-of-christian-theology-there-lies-a-personal-relationship/)

[Gerald L. Bray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-l-bray/)

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> [Uncertainty as to our relationship with God is one of the most enfeebling and dispiriting of things. It makes a man heartless.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/horatius-bonar/uncertainty-as-to-our-relationship-with-god-is-one-of-the-most/)

[Horatius Bonar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/horatius-bonar/)

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> [Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life. But I don't see that having…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/who-i-am-on-stage-is-very-very-different-to-who-i-am-in-real-life-but/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“I was asked by a concerned church-goer: "Is your relationship with God okay?" and I answered "My relationship with God is far…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-joybell-c/i-was-asked-by-a-concerned-church-goer-is-your-relationship-with-god/)

[C. JoyBell C](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-joybell-c/)

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> [From now on, I pray like I mean it. No more hitting SEND over and over. It's changed my life. It has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/regina-brett/from-now-on-i-pray-like-i-mean-it-no-more-hitting-send-over-and-over/)

[Regina Brett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/regina-brett/)

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> [Ultimately, we know that the way a person finds salvation, the way a person comes into a relationship with God is by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-laurie/ultimately-we-know-that-the-way-a-person-finds-salvation-the-way-a/)

[Greg Laurie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-laurie/)

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> [“It sounds really spiritual to say God is interested in a relationship, not in rules. But it's not biblical. From top to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-deyoung/it-sounds-really-spiritual-to-say-god-is-interested-in-a-relationship/)

[Kevin DeYoung](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-deyoung/)

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> [“The spiritual efficacy of all encounters is determined by the amount of personal ego that is in play. If two people meet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-wiman/the-spiritual-efficacy-of-all-encounters-is-determined-by-the-amount/)

[Christian Wiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-wiman/)

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> [“Sadly though, this side of heaven, we can only attempt to have a fore-shadow of the romance to come. Even the best…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angie-nichols/sadly-though-this-side-of-heaven-we-can-only-attempt-to-have-a-fore-2/)

[Angie Nichols](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angie-nichols/)

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> [“Sadly though, this side of heaven, we can only attempt to have a fore-shadow of the romance to come. Even the best…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angie-nichols/sadly-though-this-side-of-heaven-we-can-only-attempt-to-have-a-fore/)

[Angie Nichols](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angie-nichols/)

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> [I agree with Alex Montgomery. Surprisingly. I've mlainy been in settings where male leadership in the church and home is emphasized, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bapi/i-agree-with-alex-montgomery-surprisingly-i-ve-mlainy-been-in/)

[Bapi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bapi/)

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> [“Those kids would have accepted My Little Pony into their heart that day if it would have ended the chain saw sin…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-acuff/those-kids-would-have-accepted-my-little-pony-into-their-heart-that/)

[Jon Acuff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-acuff/)

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> [“A friend of mine commented yesterday that she has experienced similar insights that I talked about that all enlightened Masters and founders…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/swami-dhyan-giten/a-friend-of-mine-commented-yesterday-that-she-has-experienced-similar/)

[Swami Dhyan Giten](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/swami-dhyan-giten/)

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> [“I noticed that religion gave some people a way to escape dealing with the world: “Things will be better when you die,”…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wynton-marsalis/i-noticed-that-religion-gave-some-people-a-way-to-escape-dealing-with/)

[Wynton Marsalis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wynton-marsalis/)

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> [“It all boils down to one thing...it is your ‘relationship’ to the source, and that relationship to that which we call God,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oprah-winfrey/it-all-boils-down-to-one-thing-it-is-your-relationship-to-the-source/)

[Oprah Winfrey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oprah-winfrey/)

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## Top authors on Relationship God

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-sunday-adelaja-87912.jpg) Sunday Adelaja 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/relationship-god/sunday-adelaja/)
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                        "text": "Uncertainty as to our relationship with God is one of the most enfeebling and dispiriting of things. It makes a man heartless. It takes the pith out of him. He cannot fight; he cannot run. He is easily dismayed and gives way. He can do nothing for God. But when we know that we are of God, we are vigorous, brave, invincible. There is no more quickening truth than this of assurance.",
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                        "text": "Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life. But I don't see that having a sexy image when you are on stage means that you don't love God. No one knows what I'm really like from that. I like to walk around with bare feet and I don't like to comb my hair. I'm always so glammed up and so diva on stage and that's what they see. People don't understand that... No one knows my personal relationship with God and it's not up to me to prove that to anyone.",
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                        "text": "“I was asked by a concerned church-goer: \"Is your relationship with God okay?\" and I answered \"My relationship with God is far better than yours. You have to be in a certain place, with a certain group of people, pray at certain days of the week, read the Bible at certain times of the day; all in order to have a relationship with God. But I am with God from the moment I wake up, to the moment I fall asleep at night, I am with God wherever on this earth that I wander to, and whosoever I may be with! I may be sitting on the subway, and I am with God. I can assure you that I am closer to God than you are.”",
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                        "text": "From now on, I pray like I mean it. No more hitting SEND over and over. It's changed my life. It has freed me from fear and opened up endless avenues for me as a writer, radio host, parent, wife, and friend. It has enhanced every relationship I'm in, starting with the most important one: my relationship with God. Real faith isn't praying without ceasing. It's believing that God heard you the first time.",
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                        "text": "Ultimately, we know that the way a person finds salvation, the way a person comes into a relationship with God is by admitting their sin and turning to Christ. So, I think because they have done religious ritual A or B or C and think that is sufficient and that's all that is expected, now religion has become a barrier instead of a bridge and gives a false sense of satisfaction.",
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                        "text": "“It sounds really spiritual to say God is interested in a relationship, not in rules. But it's not biblical. From top to bottom, the Bible is full of commands. They aren't meant to stifle a relationship with God, but to protect it, seal it, and define it. Never forget: first God delivered the Israelites from Egypt, then He gave them the law. God's people were not redeemed by observing the law. But they were redeemed so that they might obey the law.”",
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                        "text": "“The spiritual efficacy of all encounters is determined by the amount of personal ego that is in play. If two people meet and disagree fiercely about theological matters but agree, silently or otherwise, that God’s love creates and sustains human love, and that whatever else may be said of God is subsidiary to this truth, then even out of what seems great friction there may emerge a peace that—though it may not end the dispute, though neither party may be “convinced” of the other’s position—nevertheless enters and nourishes one’s notion of, and relationship with, God. Without this radical openness, all arguments about God are not simply pointless but pernicious, for each person is in thrall to some lesser conception of ultimate truth and asserts not love but a lesson, not God but himself.”",
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                        "text": "“Sadly though, this side of heaven, we can only attempt to have a fore-shadow of the romance to come. Even the best marriages and the men and women who valiantly strive to follow the Bible’s model of marriage fall short. I am sure many of us have failed in obtaining the type of earthly relationship God planned and intended to display His love. Pre-marital sex, extra-marital sex, homosexuality, sex outside of a marriage covenant, and love-less, dysfunctional marriages are just the beginning. Many have been abused, sold, objectified, molested, even raped. All manner of perversion and depravity have marred the beauty God intended. We are broken, injured, hurt, marginalized, left feeling like so much less than what God requires. If you are one broken, please hear this: It should not have been. It was not God’s way or His will that you were treated like anything less than His highly valued, flawless beauty—His beloved. If you are one who lost your way and engaged in things beneath your royal standing, He died, arose and lives to forgive and restore. Yes, we know a good and solid Biblical marriage gives the closest representation of godly intimacy. But let’s get real for a minute. So few of us have ever experienced that for ourselves or grew up in homes where that was our example, we desperately need to trust God for our own healing and restoration in this area before we can ever hope to experience it in our relationships. I am convinced God’s priority for us is to learn about spiritual intimacy with Him. He can restore marriages, liberate from sexual addictions, save spouses, give us a godly man. But I think, for the most part, those things happen after we realize and accept our need for Christ. His priority will always be our spirit intimately one with His, because He puts the spirit above the flesh. We have to lay our souls bare and ask for His touch. God alone can reclaim our perception of intimacy for His holy and righteous glory. He can restore our hearts and minds to righteousness, clean and pure so we might experience holy intimacy through the Spirit until we see Him face to face in glory.”",
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                        "text": "“Sadly though, this side of heaven, we can only attempt to have a fore-shadow of the romance to come. Even the best marriages and the men and women who valiantly strive to follow the Bible’s model of marriage fall short. I am sure many of us have failed in obtaining the type of earthly relationship God planned and intended to display His love. Pre-marital sex, extra-marital sex, homosexuality, sex outside of a marriage covenant, and love-less, dysfunctional marriages are just the beginning. Many have been abused, sold, objectified, molested, even raped. All manner of perversion and depravity have marred the beauty God intended. We are broken, injured, hurt, marginalized, left feeling like so much less than what God requires. If you are one broken, please hear this: It should not have been. It was not God’s way or His will that you were treated like anything less than His highly valued, flawless beauty—His beloved. If you are one who lost your way and engaged in things beneath your royal standing, He died, arose and lives to forgive and restore.”",
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                        "text": "I agree with Alex Montgomery. Surprisingly. I've mlainy been in settings where male leadership in the church and home is emphasized, and I've often struggled with it. Why did God give give leadership gifts to women if they can't use them (at least in the big leadership positions)? Submission and following seems really, really tough.But after some conversations with friends, memorization of Ephesians 5, and beginning a relationship with a guy, I am now extremely grateful for all the godly male leaders that I see. And I am surprised at my lack of desire to lead in my relationship. I'm very grateful to the guy for taking initiative and risk; because I trust him to follow God, I am very content to follow him. As others have told me, submission/following is easy if you marry a guy you respect.Leading is tough. It means responsibility. And if I think submission is hard then leading is harder. And I think men are better able to handle that than women 'cause we worry. Even if that isn't the reason, I think God has his reasons for giving males and females different roles. Part of being a Christian is obeying the Bible even if we don't understand God's reasons.One friend told me that trusting a man's leadership is like following God. I know that comparing male/female relationships to our relationship with God is a basic principle in the Bible, clearly pointed out in Ephesians 5, but that really hit me. Because even though I struggle at times to trust God, I can point to situations where God's way was the best way for me, and I am glad now that I followed Him. And hopefully, if I ever marry, I will be able to have the same faith in my husband that I have in God .or at least a faith that God will lead through him.",
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                        "text": "“Those kids would have accepted My Little Pony into their heart that day if it would have ended the chain saw sin massacre. The emotion they learned, the threshold they had to cross that led to God, was raw fear. He’s terrifying. He wants to hurt you. He wants to cut you in half to remove your sin. I think sometimes this happens because we want to take a shortcut to salvation for someone. We want them to be saved right this second and right this moment, and love can feel like it’s taking too long. Love is messy and slow. It unravels at God’s speed, not ours. Shame is faster. Fear is faster. And if the goal is to get them in the door, then fear becomes a pretty good method. To tell you the truth, terrifying someone into a relationship with God is also easier. Love makes us vulnerable. I have to throw myself out there and be honest and naked and open to getting rejected if love is what I give to you. But fear doesn’t require any of that. I can yell and scream and try to intimidate you without getting hurt or taking any real risks. Love is harder because it demands that I get personally involved in your life. Fear doesn’t carry those same requirements.”",
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                        "text": "“A friend of mine commented yesterday that she has experienced similar insights that I talked about that all enlightened Masters and founders of religion are actually talking about the same ocean, the same invisible life source, the same God. She also said that she worked in a Christan environment at the time that she received these insights, and when she tried to share these insights with the Christians she was accused of being \"impure\" and of being associated with the \"Devil\". Christians hold on to the idea that Jesus was the only son of God, without realizing that we are all son's and daughter's of God. By holding on to the idea that Jesus is the only son of God, they do not either to realize that all enlightened Masters are talking about the same God. Jesus did not talk about faith, he talked about trust. He talked about discovering a trust in yourself and in relationship to God. Jesus said that the kingdom of God is within you. In Christianity, the church has become the intermediate between man and God, and people who claim that they have found a direct relationship to God are accused of blasphemy. The Christan church has become a barrier between man and God, and anyone who has declared that he has found a direct relationship to God are immediately banned by the church, for example Master Eckhart and Franciskus of Assisi. I have always had a deep love for Jesus, but it is not the picture of Jesus that the Christian church presents. I was a disciple of Jesus in a former life, and was thrown to the lions in Colosseum in Rome as one of the early Christians. Jesus had many more disciples than the twelve disciples mentioned in The Bible. In this life, I resigned my automatic membership in the church as soon as I could think for myself when I was 15 years old. I was also disgusted with an organization that said that they preached love and which has murdered more people than Hitler. My experience with these rare and precious insights are that they expand our consciousness of reality. They are gradual initiations into reality. They may fade away, but we will never be the same again after receiving them. They will also come more and more, the more committment we have to our spiritual growth.”",
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