Quotes about Here

In the torment of the insufficiency of everything attainable we eventually learn that here, in this life, all symphonies remain unfinished.

Precisely because the resurrection has happened as an event within our own world, its implications and effects are to be felt within our own world, here and now.

What is God doing in the here and now? He is employing the difficulties of life as tools of grace to produce character in you that would not grow any other way.

The servant answered him again. “Look,” he said, “I have here in my hand a quarter shekel of silver. I will give it to the man of God, and he will tell us our way.”

“It is I,” he answered. “Go tell your master, ‘Elijah is here!’”

But while your servant was busy here and there, the man disappeared.” And the king of Israel said to him, “So shall your judgment be; you have pronounced it on yourself.”

Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good for us to be here. If You wish, I will put up three shelters—one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”

Peter said to Jesus, “Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. Let us put up three shelters—one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”

For you have brought these men here, though they have neither robbed our temple nor blasphemed our goddess.

The Bible is written for the rough realities of life, the nitty-gritty of the here and now.

Heaven is here and God is here, because God and his spiritual agents act here and are constantly available here.

The Wild Geese (excerpt) Geese appear high over us, pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, as in love or sleep, holds them to their way, clear, in the ancient faith: what we need is here. And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart, and in eye clear. What we need is here.