God is Closer Than You Think Quotes

“The greatest moment of your life is now.
Not because it's pleasant or happy or easy, but because this moment is the only moment you've got. Every past moment is irretrievably gone. It's never coming back. If you live there, you lose your life.
And the future is always out there somewhere. You can spend an eternity waiting for tomorrow, or worrying about tomorrow. If you live there, you likewise will lose your life.
This moment is God's irreplaceable gift to you.”
― John Ortberg, God is Closer Than You Think: If God is Always with Us, Why is He So Hard to Find?

“Somebody once said that the biggest difference between you and God is that God doesn’t think he’s you. In pain, we get very clear about not being God.”
― John Ortberg Jr., God Is Closer Than You Think: This Can Be the Greatest Moment of Your Life Because This Moment Is the Place Where You Can Meet God

“ordinary becomes extraordinary when filled with”
― John Ortberg Jr., God Is Closer Than You Think: This Can Be the Greatest Moment of Your Life Because This Moment Is the Place Where You Can Meet God

“My grandmother said it better, I think. When anyone asked her which of her six children she loved the most, she said love for your children doesn’t work that way. She said it’s as if when each child is born, another little room gets added to your heart. And no one else occupies that room. It doesn’t have to be bigger or better than any other room. It’s just theirs. “In my Father’s house are many rooms,” Jesus said. One of them was added on when you became his child. That one is yours, and no one else can ever occupy it. It is secret to you and him. It’s your own private Sistine Chapel. It”
― John Ortberg Jr., God Is Closer Than You Think: This Can Be the Greatest Moment of Your Life Because This Moment Is the Place Where You Can Meet God

“The story of the Bible isn’t primarily about the desire of people to be with God; it’s the desire of God to be with people.”
― John Ortberg Jr., God Is Closer Than You Think: This Can Be the Greatest Moment of Your Life Because This Moment Is the Place Where You Can Meet God

“Whatever repeatedly enters the mind occupies the mind, eventually shapes the mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.”
― John Ortberg Jr., God Is Closer Than You Think: This Can Be the Greatest Moment of Your Life Because This Moment Is the Place Where You Can Meet God

“Jesus has made God’s presence scandalously available to anyone who wants it.”
― John Ortberg Jr., God Is Closer Than You Think: This Can Be the Greatest Moment of Your Life Because This Moment Is the Place Where You Can Meet God

“The entire sum of Creation, each private and individual act of nature, is God waving hello.”
― John Ortberg Jr., God Is Closer Than You Think: This Can Be the Greatest Moment of Your Life Because This Moment Is the Place Where You Can Meet God

“The question is, can a human being hold on to God in the face of suffering? After all, suffering is the test of love.”
― John Ortberg Jr., God Is Closer Than You Think: This Can Be the Greatest Moment of Your Life Because This Moment Is the Place Where You Can Meet God

“Then MacDonald writes this insightful line: “that the same God who is in us, . . . also is all about us—inside, the Spirit; outside, the Word. And the two are ever trying to meet in us.”
― John Ortberg Jr., God Is Closer Than You Think: This Can Be the Greatest Moment of Your Life Because This Moment Is the Place Where You Can Meet God

“In the whole divine journey, no one else can walk your pathway. In the whole cosmic choir, no one else can sing your song.”
― John Ortberg Jr., God Is Closer Than You Think: This Can Be the Greatest Moment of Your Life Because This Moment Is the Place Where You Can Meet God

“People are God’s preferred messengers, God’s Plan A, because they alone carry his image.”
― John Ortberg Jr., God Is Closer Than You Think: This Can Be the Greatest Moment of Your Life Because This Moment Is the Place Where You Can Meet God

“The issue when it comes to meditation is what, not if. The mind observes the impulse to meditate the way the body observes the law of gravity. Scripture has a lot to say about meditating wisely. The psalmist talks about the fruitful person as one whose “delight is in the law of the”
― John Ortberg Jr., God Is Closer Than You Think: This Can Be the Greatest Moment of Your Life Because This Moment Is the Place Where You Can Meet God

“God is closer than you think” means he is available in this moment right now. Always now. Only now. Abraham Heschel writes that other religions often began by setting apart sacred places whereas Israel in the Sabbath set apart a sacred time, for time is the stuff of life. For where shall the likeness of God be found? There is no quality that space has in common with the essence of God. There is not freedom enough on the top of a mountain; there is not glory enough in the silence of the sea. Yet the likeness of God can be found in time, which is eternity in disguise.”
― John Ortberg Jr., God Is Closer Than You Think: This Can Be the Greatest Moment of Your Life Because This Moment Is the Place Where You Can Meet God

“In fact, this moment is the only place where you can meet God. This is why one of the greatest books of spiritual advice ever written was given the inspired title The Sacrament of the Present Moment. A sacrament, according to church tradition, is a “means of grace.” It is an ordinary object—the water used in baptism, the cup of communion—that somehow becomes the vessel of the extraordinary, of the divine. The writer of that book, a spiritual director named Jean Pierre de Caussade, says that each moment of our lives can be a sacrament, a vehicle for God’s love and power. “The present moment holds infinite riches beyond your wildest dreams, but you will only enjoy them to the extent of your faith and love. . . . To discover God in the smallest and most ordinary things, as well as in the greatest, is to possess a rare and sublime faith.” This can be the greatest moment of your life because this moment is the place where you can meet God. In the same way that every lungful of”
― John Ortberg Jr., God Is Closer Than You Think: This Can Be the Greatest Moment of Your Life Because This Moment Is the Place Where You Can Meet God

“I did, however, remember a line from a book by Dallas Willard that I had read just recently: “At the beginning of each morning I commit my day to the Lord’s care. . . . I have already placed God in charge. I no longer have to manage the weather, airplanes, and other people.”
― John Ortberg Jr., God Is Closer Than You Think: This Can Be the Greatest Moment of Your Life Because This Moment Is the Place Where You Can Meet God

“The one thing needed is the decision to live so continually in Jesus’ presence as to be always covered with the dust of the rabbi. Martha got”
― John Ortberg Jr., God Is Closer Than You Think: This Can Be the Greatest Moment of Your Life Because This Moment Is the Place Where You Can Meet God

“can be “sitting at Jesus feet” when I’m kneeling in prayer or negotiating a contract or fixing my kids lunch or watching a movie. All it requires is my asking him to be my teacher and companion in this moment.”
― John Ortberg Jr., God Is Closer Than You Think: This Can Be the Greatest Moment of Your Life Because This Moment Is the Place Where You Can Meet God

“God wants to be known, but not in a way that overwhelms us, that takes away the possibility of love freely chosen. “God is like a person who clears his throat while hiding and so gives himself away,” said Meister Eckhart.”
― John Ortberg Jr., God Is Closer Than You Think: This Can Be the Greatest Moment of Your Life Because This Moment Is the Place Where You Can Meet God

“Welcome to the human race. It is somehow essential to human life as God has ordained it that we can know the final score of yesterday but not tomorrow. It doesn’t mean we’re condemned to anxiety. It does mean this: If you’re looking for certainty, you’ve chosen the wrong species. You can walk by faith, but not by sight; not down here.”
― John Ortberg Jr., God Is Closer Than You Think: This Can Be the Greatest Moment of Your Life Because This Moment Is the Place Where You Can Meet God

“Not knowing doesn’t mean you’re condemned to anxiety; rather, not knowing calls for trust, and trust is crucial to good performance. Uncertainty is essential to the game.”
― John Ortberg Jr., God Is Closer Than You Think: This Can Be the Greatest Moment of Your Life Because This Moment Is the Place Where You Can Meet God

“Not knowing doesn’t mandate anxiety; rather, it instills confidence, and confidence is crucial to good performance.”
― John Ortberg Jr., God Is Closer Than You Think: This Can Be the Greatest Moment of Your Life Because This Moment Is the Place Where You Can Meet God

“God is determined that you should be in every respect his friend, his companion, his dwelling place.”
― John Ortberg Jr., God Is Closer Than You Think: This Can Be the Greatest Moment of Your Life Because This Moment Is the Place Where You Can Meet God