Quotes about Distance

When you leave your country, it's hard to leave your family over there. My whole family is in Venezuela.

The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front.

The Duke of Shê asked about government. The Master said, When the near approve and the distant approach.

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.

Faith is like radar which sees through the fog—the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.

Every time you mourn for me, I'll be far away. But when you celebrate, I'll be right there with you, dancing.

What we have to go through to commit sin distances us from God—we change in the very act of rebellion—and there is no guarantee we will ever come back. You ask me about forgiveness now, but will you even want it later, especially if it involves repentance?

Strategy 7—Against Your Purity He tries to tempt you toward certain sins, convincing you that you can tolerate them without risking consequence, knowing they'll only wedge distance between you and God (Isa. 59:1—2).

Most men will not ignore the present world that they can see in order to make the world they cannot see the object of their desires. Therefore, there is an immediate friendship between this world and a man's fleshly desires and a corresponding distance between carnal man and eternal things.

Your impression of him as a respectable man brings to my mind the work of a painter whose pictures show attractively at a distance but unpleasantly up close. I

One of the reasons that problem solving is so difficult is that we are often too close to the problems to truly understand them.

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.