Time With God Quotes

“...I've been looking for you God. I looked in temple. I looked in church. And today, I looked for you when I wanted to confess. But you weren't there. I didn't feel you at all. Not the way I do when I talk to you at night. Why God? Why do I only feel you when I'm alone?”
― Judy Blume, Collection (5 Books) Are You There God? It's Me Margaret / Blubber / Otherwise Known As Sheila the Great / Superfudge / Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

“Hebrews 11:8, NASB, says, “By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed by going out to a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he was going.”

I sure do not know what I’m going to do here this semester or in Togo, but I do know that God knows what He is doing—so my attitude must be to trust God entirely.

I’m glad He doesn’t let us know what He has planned next; He just continues to reveal who He is.

Some days I feel alone here, but being alone with God isn’t bad either.

My solitude with Him has been special.

--Shirley Cropsey, January 13, 1982”
― Shirley Cropsey, What God Can Do: Letters to My Mom from the Medical Mission Field of Togo, West Africa

“Our bodies get tired, so we sleep. If I refuse sleep on the basis that I need to train for a marathon, I will fail to run a marathon, because my body needs rest in order to train. So why would we think it should be all that different with our souls? When our souls are tired, why wouldn't we rest? Jesus seems to have made a habit of this. Are we a bit more spiritually fit than the Lord?”
― Adam Mabry, The Art of Rest: Faith to Hit Pause in a World that Never Stops