Existence Quote by Thomas Aquinas

The closer a person is to God, the closer he is to people.

— Pope Benedict XVI

God is nearer to us than any man at every time. He is nearer to me than my raiment, nearer than the air or…

— John of Kronstadt

The closer we are to God, the closer we are to those who are close to him.

— Thomas Merton

There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God

— Ivan Illich

God is nearer to us than our own spirit

— Julian of Norwich

Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay…

— Meister Eckhart

Grace renders us like God and a partaker of the divine nature.

— Thomas Aquinas

It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed…

— Thomas Brooks

Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need,…

— Anonymous

But God himself is truth; in propagating which, as men display a greater integrity and zeal, they approach nearer to the similitude of God,…

— John Milton

I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am…

— Meister Eckhart

Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch…

— William Ames