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Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice,… — Elihu Root
This depression comes over me whenever the Lord is preparing a larger blessing for my ministry; the cloud is black before it breaks, and overshadows… — Charles Spurgeon
Who am I that I should urge these missionaries to confess their sins in public, when, for all I know, they may be living nearer… — Jonathan Goforth
Stories worked much the same way . . . A false note at the beginning was much more costly than one nearer the end because… — Richard Russo
If I had my will, I would live in a ship on the sea and never come nearer to humanity than that! — Eleanora Duse
The nearer to the church, the further from God. — John Heywood
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
The little boy had wandered away from his mother, tacking across the grass toward the play structure. His mother watched him go, proud, tickled, unaware… — Michael Chabon
All who wait upon the Lord shall rise higher and higher upon the mighty pinions of strong devotion, and with the unblinking eye of faith,… — John Angell James
Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it. — Charles Caleb Colton
All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, without coming any nearer, the very being who is as… — Simone Weil
One sweetly solemn thought, comes to me o'er and o'er; I am nearer home today, than I ever have been before. — Phoebe Cary
Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace. — Abbe Pierre
This is the dialectic - there is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains an element of craziness is… — Douglas Sirk
There is a purpose in life--to raise men nearer to the likeness of God. Whoever seeks that ideal, daily, finds joy; and in no other… — John Andreas Widtsoe
We belong to no cult. We are not Nature Lovers. We don't love nature any more than we love breathing. Nature is simply something indispensable,… — Louise Dickinson Rich
Much of our difficulty as seeking Christians stems from our unwillingness to take God as He is and adjust our lives accordingly. We insist upon… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
This ego - the less there is of it, the nearer I am to that which I really am: the universal body. — Swami Vivekananda
It is paradoxical but nonetheless true that the nearer man comes to his goal to make his life easy and abundant, the more he undermines… — Franz Alexander
I know no study that will take you nearer the way to happiness than the study of nature - and I include in the study… — Helen Keller
Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat… — Wilfred Burchett
The Last Of England works with image and sound, a language which is nearer to poetry than prose. It tells its story quite happily in… — Derek Jarman
Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places.… — A B Simpson
We are always searching for God afar off, when all the while He is nearer to us than our own soul. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

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