Quotes About Nearer

I reflected much on that vain desire, which had pursued me for so many years, of being in solitude in order to be a Christian. I have now, thought I, solitude enough; but am I therefore the nearer being a Christian? Not if Jesus Christ be the model of Christianity.

It is easier for us to get to know God than to know our own soul...God is nearer to us than our soul, for He is the ground in which it stands...so if we want to know our own soul, and enjoy its fellowship, it is necessary to seek it in our Lord God.

Dread occurs frequently in response to high-probability negative events; its magnitude increases as the dreaded event draws nearer. Because

Dread occurs frequently in response to high-probability negative events; its magnitude increases as the dreaded event draws nearer.

Sin and Satan deceive our hearts with lies that God is distant. His hand of discipline declares he is never nearer.

You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.

Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back,Guilty of dust and sin.But quick-ey'd Love, observing me grow slackFrom my first entrance in,Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning,If I lack'd anything.

The Scriptures declare, "… it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed" (Rom. 13:11 KJV).

The nearer a man gets to God, the greater he sees his sin.

Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;           Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word.           All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance,           All our ignorance brings us nearer to death,           But nearness to death no nearer to GOD.

There is no loftier mission than to approach the Divinity nearer than other men, and to disseminate the divine rays among mankind.

Paramahansa Yogananda would tell people, "Call to Divine Mother, because the Mother is nearer than the Father.

One will observe that all things are arranged according to their degrees of beauty and excellence, and that the nearer they are to God, the more beautiful and better they are.

Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word. All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance, All our ignorance brings us nearer to death, But nearness to death no nearer to GOD.

All music is what awakes within us when we are reminded by the instruments; It is not the violins or the clarinets - It is not the beating of the drums - Nor the score of the baritone singing his sweet romanza; not that of the men's chorus, Nor that of the women's chorus - It is nearer and farther than they

The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. Science brings men nearer to God.

Humor is, however, nearer right than any emotion we have. Humor is the atmosphere in which grace most flourishes.

I'm a woman. And I'm a man. That's how it is for me. I am in a body that I prefer. But the past, my past, is not subject to surgery. I didn't do it to distance myself from myself. I did it to get nearer to myself.

It is the very error of the moon. She comes more nearer earth than she was wont. And makes men mad.

But the French seem much nearer to the danger than we are. There is no strip of salt water to guard their land and their liberties.

The kiss of sun for pardon, The song of the birds for mirth, One is nearer God's Heart in a garden Than anywhere else on earth

It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.

For my part I am persuaded the more light we have, the more we see our own sinfulness: the nearer we get to heaven, the more we are clothed with humility.

For my part, I am persuaded that the more light we have, the more we see our own sinfulness. The nearer we get to heaven, the more we are clothed with humility.