Quotes About Distance

Was this hell? To love like this, to grieve from fifteen feet, an uncrossable distance?

apart from the grey smudge of a tanker or freighter on the horizon, the sea was empty.

Then she went off and sat down nearby, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I cannot bear to watch the boy die!” And as she sat nearby, she lifted up her voice and wept.

On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.

Then he put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob was shepherding the rest of Labanís flocks.

He entrusted them to his servants in separate herds and told them, “Go on ahead of me, and keep some distance between the herds.”

Now Josephís brothers saw him in the distance, and before he arrived, they plotted to kill him.

And his sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.

When all the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the sounding of the ramís horn, and the mountain enveloped in smoke, they trembled and stood at a distance.

And the people stood at a distance as Moses approached the thick darkness where God was.

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to the LORD—you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of Israelís elders—and you are to worship at a distance.

Moses alone shall approach the LORD, but the others must not come near. And the people may not go up with him.”

Now Moses used to take the tent and pitch it at a distance outside the camp. He called it the Tent of Meeting, and anyone inquiring of the LORD would go to the Tent of Meeting outside the camp.

If the place where the LORD your God chooses to put His Name is too far from you, then you may slaughter any of the herd or flock He has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat it within your gates whenever you want.

But if the distance is too great for you to carry that with which the LORD your God has blessed you, because the place where the LORD your God will choose to put His Name is too far away,

This is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.

your elders and judges must come out and measure the distance from the victim to the neighboring cities.

But keep a distance of about two thousand cubits between yourselves and the ark. Do not go near it, so that you can see the way to go, since you have never traveled this way before.”

Then David crossed to the other side and stood atop the mountain at a distance; there was a wide gulf between them.

After Absalom had fled and gone to Geshur, he stayed there three years.

But the king added, “He may return to his house, but he must not see my face.” So Absalom returned to his own house, but he did not see the king.

Then a company of fifty of the sons of the prophets went and stood at a distance, facing Elijah and Elisha as the two of them stood by the Jordan.

So she set out and went to the man of God at Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her at a distance, he said to his servant Gehazi, “Look, there is the Shunammite woman.

Therefore Darius decreed: To Tattenai governor of the region west of the Euphrates, Shethar-bozenai, and your associates and officials in the region: You must stay away from that place!