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Physics filled me with awe, put me in touch with a sense of original causes. Physics brought me closer to God. That feeling stayed with… — Isidor Isaac Rabi
God is nearer to you than any thought or feeling of yours... Do not be afraid. — George MacDonald
I'm talking about when you're nearer the end of your life than the beginning. Now what do you think you think about then? The future?… — Christopher Plummer
It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. "Get a reputation, and then go to bed," is the absurdest of… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Orange is red brought nearer to humanity by yellow. — Wassily Kandinsky
It may be said of some very old places, as of some very old books, that they are destined to be forever new. The nearer… — Amelia B. Edwards
God is nearer to me than I am to myself; He is just as near to wood and stone, but they do not know it. — Meister Eckhart
One can generally say this about men: that they are ungrateful, fickle, simulators and deceivers, avoiders of danger, greedy for gain; and while you work… — Niccolo Machiavelli
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… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet- Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you must break the… — Meister Eckhart
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
For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we… — Rebecca Harding Davis
Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a short story that's… — William Faulkner
The camera is not only an extension of the eye but of the brain. It can see sharper, farther, nearer, slower, faster than the eye.… — Wynn Bullock
Of all the animal creations of God, main is the only animal who has been created in order that he may know his Maker. Man's… — Mahatma Gandhi
God is nearer to us than our own spirit — Julian of Norwich
'Tis sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden rounds are our calamities, Whereon our firm feet planting, nearer God The spirit climbs, and hath… — James Russell Lowell
Why do we cling to life and why are we afraid of death? You may not have thought about it. The reason why we cling… — Rajneesh
To me, man means awareness of death. I am not saying become afraid of death; that is not awareness. Just be aware of the fact… — Rajneesh
The standard that measures two things is something different from either. You are, in fact, comparing them both with some Real Morality, admitting that there… — C.S. Lewis
They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We see ourselves at… — William Hazlitt
The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become. — Henry Martyn
The great mystery of our metaphysical situation, that God is nearer to us than we are ourselves, is manifest in the fact that we cannot… — Dietrich von Hildebrand
I have long been aware that when an independent intellectual stands up to an autocratic state, step one toward freedom is often a step into… — Liu Xia

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