Quotes about Distance

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

Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they saw each other; and, like the stars in the sky separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing upon each other.

The nearer the church, the further from God.

This is at the beginning of my book: When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind. Victor Hugo

Nor can it be argued that the time required is too short to be perceived; for though this may be the case in short distances, it cannot be so in distances so great as that which separates the East from the West.

Why, O LORD, do You stand far off? Why do You hide in times of trouble?

As He entered one of the villages, He was met by ten lepers. They stood at a distance

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.

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

We insult God by speaking to Him with our lips while our hearts are far from Him.

The farther we get from God, the more the world spirals out of control.

It is an eleven-day journey from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea by way of Mount Seir.