Quotes About Distant

had been the case with the previous Temple, Jews who were unable or even unwilling to come from distant parts to Jerusalem practiced sacrifice in their own locales. Several hundred years later, in the third century, the first evidence emerges of institutions in which a new form of devotion—prayer—appears. These sites where prayer was practiced were called "synagogues" (Greek for assembly).

God was seldom discussed in our family except in a very distant sort of way, rather like our cousins in Canada.

donde Cristo perdió el mechero

That sense of some distant, unknown country from where she'd come and toward which she seemed to want to return.

now barely visible about 7 miles away.

The world has never seen a more impressive demonstration of the influence of sea power upon its history. Those far distant, storm-beaten ships, upon which the Grand Army never looked, stood between it and the dominion of the world.

almost everything here has cold hands

I'm a cold-hearted bastard. I'm insular, I'm jaded, a workaholic, I'm ruthless and I'm self-serving. I don't do forever, I rarely even do "I'll call you tomorrow". And just because I'm here now it does not mean if you ask me to stay I will.

American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from any battlefield, making it far more secure.

I had never been much interested in Pluto, too few facts and too much isolation.

Holman felt the slowness coalesce into a kind of distant calm.

It is pointless and impossible to maintain a modern ideology based on inaccurate memories of a dead and distant past.

We've created a theology in the West of a God who is fundamentally self-centered. The imagery of God as distant, unapproachable, unreachable -- that's not a God who is relational. It is a God that gets to declare or judge when he gets pissed off. But there is no basis for love and relationships if God is a fundamentally self-centered being.

it did gradually and tenaciously arouse within me a sensuous craving for such things as the destiny of soldiers, the tragic nature of their calling, the distant countries they would seem the ways they would die.

it did gradually and tenaciously arouse within me a sensuous craving for such things as the destiny of soldiers, the tragic nature of their calling, the distant countries they would see, the ways they would die.

The stars blazed like the love of God, cold and distant.

Anyway, that was all a long time ago.' 'So was the Big Bang,

Too emotionally invested. And yet compassion is what you most distrust, what you thrust away from you, preferring to project with everyone but Grace that you're cold, distant, even harsh, so that you can be clearheaded and objective...even if acting the part has made you a little cold, distant, and harsh.

And yet compassion is what you most distrust, what you thrust away from you, preferring to project with everyone but Grace that you're cold, distant, even harsh, so that you can be clearheaded and objective Ã¢â'¬Â¦ even if acting the part has made you a little cold, distant, and harsh.

Control's mother often seemed to him like a flash of light across a distant night sky.

O brilho dos seus olhos fora substituído por uma suavidade sonhadora e melancólica; eles já não davam a impressão de olhar para os objetos que a rodeavam: pareciam sempre olhar para longe, bem longe — como se fixos fora deste mundo.

Es el que plantea la división de los bípedos en dos mundos, tan distantes e incompatibles como lo está un volumen de ventas con la teoría de los números ordinales transfinitos.

The Final Poem A forge burns in my heart. I am redder than dawn, Deeper than seaweed, More distant than gulls, More hollow than wells. But I only give birth To seeds and to shells. My tongue becomes tangled in words: I no longer speak white, Nor utter black, Nor whisper gray of a wind-worn cliff, Barely do I glimpse a swallow, A shadow's brief glimmer, Or guess at an iris. Where are the words, The undying fire, The final poem? The source of life?

They rarely discovered a star red as a distant crime or a star-fish.