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In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.
— Jessamyn West
Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.
— Elbert Hubbard
I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions.
— Jacqueline Bisset
The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Our enemies are nearer the truth in their opinion of us than we are ourselves.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Adventure is making the distant approach nearerbut romance is having what is where it is which is not
where you are stay where it is. — Gertrude Stein
The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity.
— Henry David Thoreau
COURSER My soul, living is like a courser of the night; the swifter its flight, the nearer the dawn. WM-ST-69
— Kahlil Gibran
I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us.
— Quentin Blake
Where we are, There's daggers in men's smiles: the near in blood,
The nearer bloody. — William Shakespeare
We all want to do the will of God, and we know that there is nothing nearer to His heart than the evangelization of the world.
— Oswald J. Smith
321. - We are nearer loving those who hate us, than those who love us more than we desire.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
That One Who is greater than us is near - nearer than we could measure.
— Amy Layne Litzelman
We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love.
— John Owen
Do Lord, do Lord, do lingernearer. — Khafre Kujichagulia Abif
Moses Kaldor had always loved mountains; they made him feel nearer to the God whose nonexistence he still sometimes resented.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Take heed of thinking. The farther you go from the church of Rome, the nearer you are to God.
— Henry Wotton
Life is a walk to the edge of a cliff. Every day we get a step nearer and what lies over the brink, no one can tell.
— Deepak Chopra
The tension between us kicked up a notch, and I realized that along with our bodies being nearer, so were our lips.
— Richelle Mead
Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
I feel as if I were nearer to the vitals of the globe, for this sandy overflow is something such a foliaceous mass as the vitals of the animal body.
— Henry David Thoreau
Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one.
— Henry Moore
We are nearer neighbours to ourselves than whiteness to snow, or weight to stones.
— Michel De Montaigne
Once you understand that the false needs time and what needs time is false, you are nearer the Reality, which is timeless, ever in the NOW.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Nothing is nearer to us than heaven. The earth is beneath our feet, and we tread upon it, but heaven is within us.
— Nikos Kazantzakis
The more wants we have, the further we are from God, and the nearer we approach him, the better can we dispense with everything that is not Himself.
— Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
Pickett's lines being nearer, the impact was heaviest upon them.
— James Longstreet
Thou art never at any time nearer to God than when under tribulation; which He permits for the purification and beautifying of thy soul.
— Miguel De Molinos
I try and picture you reading this there is a sense that as I write I try and get nearer to you, connect in my mind with you. — Elise Valmorbida
Nearer, my God, to Thee.
— Sarah Fuller Flower Adams
When expectations delay for too long, doubt draw nearer in haste and patience goes farther
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still.
— Sebastian Faulks
God is the "mysterium tremendum," that appears and overthrows, but he is also the mystery of the self-evident, nearer to me than my I.
— Martin Buber
The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
To pity those that know her notIs helped by the regret
That those who know her, know her less
The nearer her they get. — Emily Dickinson
In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.
— Herbert Hoover
The darker the night, the nearer the dawn. Victory in life is decided by that last concentrated burst of energy filled with the resolve to win.
— Daisaku Ikeda
No friend have I. I must live by myself alone; but I know well that God is nearer to me than others in my art, so I will walk fearlessly with Him.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
Near or far, there are burdens and terrors in sisterhood, and perhaps the nearer, the more complicated.
— Helen Yglesias
We get nearer to the Lord through music than perhaps through any other thing except prayer.
— J. Reuben Clark
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
— Ben Jonson
The purer I try to become, the nearer I feel to be to God.
— Mahatma Gandhi
None of us can know how poor we are in comparison with what we might have been if we had lived habitually nearer to God in prayer.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.
— Marcus Aurelius
I think that the proclamation of the Gospel is sometimes nearer to an atheistic point of view than to traditional religious attitudes.
— Ernesto Cardenal
The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole ...
— Simone De Beauvoir
One may be drunk with love without being any nearer to finding his mate ... Love must be as much a light as a flame.
— Henry David Thoreau
Courage without discipline is nearer beastliness than manhood.
— Philip Sidney
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
— George Orwell
Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.
— Henry David Thoreau
Genuine faith can find encouragement, even in that which is discouraging and get nearer to God.
— T. B. Joshua
Do you desire to be nearer to God today? Fill your mind with the truth of the Word and your heart with prayer, and trust God to take care of you.
— Warren W. Wiersbe
Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The near in blood,The nearer bloody. — William Shakespeare
Our future was so completely unknown, and I think that the unknown and the awful always bring a man nearer to his Maker.
— H. Rider Haggard
The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
So, now, with me. That brute which knows no peace came ever nearer me and, step by step, drove me back down to where the sun is mute.
— Dante Alighieri
Mrs. Clathermont's face split into a too-wide smile. "Aren't we all?" Then she slid the card nearer to him.
— Lana Hart
the nearer we approach to God, the more we are drawn by Him.
— Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.
— George MacDonald
Every evening brings us nearer God.
— Martin Luther
Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.
— George MacDonald
You need not cry very loud; he is nearer to us than we think.
— Brother Lawrence
We are always searching for God afar off, when all the while He is nearer to us than our own soul.
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
The Expulsion from Eden is an act of vindictive womanish spite; the Fall of Man, as recounted in the Bible, comes nearer to the Fall of God.
— Cyril Connolly
God is not a Power residing in the clouds. He is an unseen Power residing within us and nearer to us than finger nails to the flesh.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Challenges are like vehicles in the rear-view mirror. They appear larger and nearer than they are.
— Vikrmn
We can be born thus more than once; and each birth brings us a little nearer to our God.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
He who gets nearer the sun is leader, the aristocrat of aristocrats, or he who, like Dostoevsky, gets nearest the moon of our non-being.
— D.H. Lawrence
When you are nearer, you will understand how much your eyesight is deceived by distance. Therefore, push yourself a little harder.
— Dante Alighieri
A story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the vaguer it becomes.
— George Orwell
Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism and dictatorship. The
— Ludwig Von Mises
It all gave a pleasant illusion of eternity, this quiet sailing under a perfect sky towards a horizon perpetually five miles ahead, never nearer.
— Patrick O'Brian
The fact that he and she understood each other without a word seemed to bring them nearer than any explanation would have done.
— Edith Wharton
A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.
— C.S. Lewis
Coming nearer and
— Iris Johansen
Lift up our eyes to you?no, God, we stare and stare,
upon a nearer thing
that greets us here,
Death, violent and near. — Hilda Doolittle
I have a vision of the whole Church getting nearer to God by abiding by the precepts of the Book of Mormon.
— Ezra Taft Benson
