Start of Sarah Adams's well-known hymn

• More likely to encounter
• First word of a famous hymn
• Like Mars vis-à-vis Jupiter
• More on target
• Easier to see, perhaps
• Easier to reach, say
• Closer (to)
• More convenient
• "___, My God, to Thee" (supposed last song played on the sinking Titanic)

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Less distant from. (en-comparative of: near ). prep. Closer