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Aiden Wilson Tozer quote: "We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is..."
We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts Aiden Wilson Tozer
Don’t flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
C. S. Lewis quote: "Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that..."
Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it. C. S. Lewis
...The cry of revolt against such a god [a god which just affirms the world as it is] is nearer the truth than is the sophistry with which men attempt to justify him.... Karl Barth
A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape, turn its prose into something nearer poetry. Michael Pollan
Mary Webb quote: "Labor brings a thing nearer the hearts core."
Labor brings a thing nearer the hearts core. Mary Webb
Again, stepping nearer, he besought her with another tremulous eager call upon her name. 'Margaret!'Still lower went the head; more closely hidden was the face, almost resting on the table before her. He came close to her. He knelt by her side, to bring his face to a level with her ear; and whispered-panted out the words:? 'Take care.? If you do not speak? I shall claim you as my own in some strange presumptuous way. Elizabeth Gaskell
Clove!" Cato's voice is much nearer now. I can tell by the pain in it that he sees her on the ground. "You better run now, Fire Girl," says Thresh. I don't need to be told twice. I flip over and my feet dig into the hard-packed earth as I run away from Thresh and Clove and the sound of Cato's voice. Only when I reach the woods do I turn back for an instant. Thresh and both large backpacks are vanishing over the edge of the plain into the area I've never seen. Cato kneels beside Clove,... Suzanne Collins
I work all day, and get half drunk at night. Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare. In time the curtain edges will grow light. Till then I see what's really always there: Unresting death, a whole day nearer now, Making all thought impossible but how And where and when I shall myself die. Philip Larkin
The nearer persons come to each other, the greater is the room and the more are the occasions for courtesy; but just in proportion to their approach the gentleness of most men diminishes. George MacDonald
Herbert Hoover quote: "We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over..."
We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before. Herbert Hoover
I daren't come and drink," said Jill. Then you will die of thirst," said the Lion. Oh dear!" said Jill, coming another step nearer."I suppose I must go and look for another stream then."There is no other stream," said the Lion. C. S. Lewis
Sylvia Plath quote: "If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular..."
If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth. Sylvia Plath
They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars—on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places. Robert Frost
Nowadays almost all man's improvements, so called, as the building of houses, and the cutting down of the forest and of all large trees, simply deform the landscape, and make it more tame and cheap... and some worldly miser with a surveyor looking after his bounds, while heaven had taken place around him, and he did not see the angles going to and fro, but was looking for an old post-hole in the midst of paradise. I looked again, and saw him standing in the middle of a boggy, stygian, fen,... Henry David Thoreau

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