The Hidden Life, Thoughts on Communion With God Quotes

“Creation is the result, but not the beginning of love. Redemption is the manifestation of God as love, and therefore points to a love of absolute necessity and eternity. God is love, not God became love... It is this love that we are planted by the incarnation, death, and resurrection of Jesus.”
― Adolph Saphir, The Hidden Life, Thoughts on Communion With God

“Eternity is to us as time, the age to come, the continuation, the manifestation, and perfection of our present and true existence.”
― Adolph Saphir, The Hidden Life, Thoughts on Communion With God

“God hears prayer. This simplest view of prayer is taken throughout Scripture. It dwells not on the reflex influence of prayer on our heart and life, although it abundantly shows the connection between prayer as an act, and prayer as a state. It rather fixes with great definiteness the objective or real purpose of prayer, to obtain blessings, gifts, deliverances, from God. "Ask, and it shall be given you,"4 Jesus says to us. "Ask what I shall give thee,"5 Jehovah said to Solomon. "Call upon Me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee."6 "If any man lack wisdom, let him ask . . . and it shall be given him."7”
― Adolph Saphir, The Hidden Life: Thoughts on Communion with God

“In reading Scripture, we feel in the presence of Him unto whose eyes all things are naked and open.”
― Adolph Saphir, The Hidden Life: Thoughts on Communion with God

“There is the great and glorious fact, that God has indeed spoken; that He who made the heart has had first entrance to it; that He has spoken first; that, as in a palimpsest, deep, deep below all the writing of doubt and unbelief is the writing of God, and shall remain there, either in an eternity of blessedness or anguish. When”
― Adolph Saphir, The Hidden Life: Thoughts on Communion with God