Voni

“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

“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

“Why should I allow their deeds to control me still, decades later?”
― J. Ellsworth Kalas, I Love Growing Older, But I'll Never Grow Old