Quotes about Distance
I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come.
- Nelson Mandela
A real friendship should not fade as time passes, and should not weaken because of space separation.
- John Newton
There are times when we have had enough even of our Friends.
- Henry David Thoreau
Like some wines, our love could neither mature nor travel.
- Graham Greene
I've learned that true friendship continues to grow, Even over the longest distance. Same goes for true love.
- Anonymous
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The distance between two souls is love.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
We mustn't imagine that our feeling of being close to God is a true index of the reality.
- NT Wright
So for Jesus "going to heaven" isn't a matter of disappearing into the far distance. Jesus is like somebody who has two homes. The homes are right next door to each other, and there is a connecting door. One day the partition wall will be knocked down and there will be one, glorious, heaven-and-earth mixture.
- NT Wright
People are always far away.
- Olga Tokarczuk
In terms of distance, the prodigal's pigsty is the farthest point from home; in terms of time, the pigsty is the shortest distance to the father's house.
- Os Guinness
The way up to the top of the mountain is always longer than you think. Dont fool yourself, the moment will arrive when what seemed so near is still very far.
- Paulo Coelho