When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
The greater the fear the nearer the danger.
The farther from Rome the nearer to God.
The pipe is nearer than the wife.
The nearer the inn, the longer the road.
The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat.
The nearer the bone, the sweeter the flesh.
The nearer to the synagogue, the farther from God.
Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality.
God's help is nearer than the door.
The moon grows darker as it gets nearer to the sun.
Darker and darker, he said; farther and farther yet. Death takes the good, the beautiful, and the young - and spares me. The Pestilence that wastes, the Arrow that strikes, the Sea that drowns, the Grave the closes over Love and Hope, are steps of my...
Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and...
By then I wasn't just asking questions; I was being changed by them. I was being changed by my prayers, which dwindled down nearer and nearer to silence, which weren't confrontations with God but with the difficulty--in my own mind, or in the human l...
The Piper is coming nearer," he said, "he is nearer than he was that evening I saw him before. His long, shadowy cloak is blowing around him. He pipes - he pipes - and we must follow - Jem and Carl and Jerry and I - round and round the world. Listen ...
We all want progress. But progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and wal...
There is no sharp boundary line separating the reactions of the immune bodies from chemical processes between crystalloids, just as in nature there exists every stage between crystalloid and colloid. The nearer the colloid particle approximates to th...
The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.
The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
