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In proportion as the ardor of divine love brings you nearer to God, so will a larger concourse of saintly brethren flock to you. For,… — John Cassian
The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you. — Mark Twain
Genuine faith can find encouragement, even in that which is discouraging and get nearer to God. — T. B. Joshua
God is nearer to us than any man at every time. He is nearer to me than my raiment, nearer than the air or light,… — John of Kronstadt
Whoever accepts the higher mission of art and comes nearer and nearer to it through his creative activity, will then go on from art to… — Paul Brunton
We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a… — Dora Russell
The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the… — Karl Jaspers
We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that… — Henry David Thoreau
The more Adams thought about the future of his country, the more convinced he became that it rested on education. Before any great things are… — David McCullough
...he seemed to approach the grave as an hyperbolic curve approaches a line, less directly as he got nearer, till it was doubtful if he… — Thomas Hardy
The nearer you take anything to the light, the darker its spots will appear; and the nearer you live to God, the more you will… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
It is the very error of the moon; She comes more nearer earth than she was wont, And makes men mad. — William Shakespeare
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… — Quentin Blake
Midsummer Night was roasting hot. The shore, of red granite, glowed with the heat; the dark blood of the earth seemed to be rising from… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
Broader and deeper we must write our annals, from an ethical reformation, from an influx of the ever new, ever sanative conscience, if we would… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute. — C.S. Lewis
When by the flood of your tears, the inner and the outer have fused into One, you will find Her whom you sought with such… — Anandamayi Ma
The discoveries which we make abroad are special and particular; those which we make at home are general and significant. The further off, the nearer… — Henry David Thoreau
I want nothing new, if I can have but a tithe of the old secured to me. I will spurn all wealth beside. Think of… — Henry David Thoreau
It is easy to understand that the nearer we live to the source of wealth, the more wealth we shall receive. — Wallace D. Wattles
When all is said and done, is there any more wonderful sight, any moment when man's reason is nearer to some sort of contact with… — Saint Augustine
This is a strange, little, complacent country [Switzerland], in many ways a USA in miniature but of course nearer the center of disturbance! — Eleanor Roosevelt
Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Now on the hills I hear the thunder mutter... Nearer and nearer rolls the thunder-clap,— You can hear the quick heart of the tempest beat....… — James Russell Lowell
To grasp the meaning of the world of today we use a language created to express the world of yesterday. The life of the past… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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