Quotes About Proximity

Within two years they'd realized that Sweden was too close, that the Baltic Sea brought in certain fluids, nostalgias, miasmas, a kind of unpleasant air.

I know why men lose sight of the face of God: because it is so close.

must tell them sometime," Alethia said. "I would rather get it over with now. And they are conveniently on our doorstep.

inches away, quacking softly

We went our separate ways, but within walking distance of one another.

So far away and yet you feel so close.

On Earth everybody is a foreigner to their neighbour. It's because we're all squashed up so tight. Privacy is a cherished commodity. In public places, people don't chat to strangers, they avoid eye contact. It's because that's the way they want to be treated. I'm

The capacity for interpretation in psychological terms—let us call this the "Interpersonal Interpretive Mechanism," or IIM—is not just a generator or mediator of attachment experience; it is also a product of the complex psychological processes engendered by close proximity in infancy to another human being—the primary object or attachment figure.

Anyone who comes near the tabernacle of the LORD will die. Are we all going to perish?”

For what nation is great enough to have a god as near to them as the LORD our God is to us whenever we call on Him?

One scale is so near to another that no air can pass between them.

Do not forsake your friend or your fatherís friend, and do not go to your brotherís house in the day of your calamity; better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.

When they placed their threshold next to My threshold and their doorposts beside My doorposts, with only a wall between Me and them, they defiled My holy name by the abominations they committed. Therefore I have consumed them in My anger.

Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, a little less than two miles away,