He who is near the Church is often far from God.
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He who is near the church is often far from God
FRENCH PROVERB We often travel too far to know who is near. – Shahwan SETHI
MUHAMMAD SHAHWAN TARIQ It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast
themselves most of their being near to ...
MATTHEW (MATHEW) HENRY It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to t...
MATTHEW HENRY It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to t...
MATHEW HENRY He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart ...
CHANAKYA Such is my Lord, who is all-pervading everywhere. He dwells near at hand - the Lord is not far away.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even ...
MEISTER ECKHART The world that we live in is a weakness. To continuously live in an environment that weakens you, on...
APURVA GAGLANI God Is Great. If these three words together enshrine in our mind, heart and soul, then there is neve...
ANUJ SOMANY A man may go into the field and say his prayer and be aware of God, or he may be in Church and be aw...
MEISTER ECKHART Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD The unknown is generally taken to be terrible, not as the proverb would infer, from the inherent sup...
H. RIDER HAGGARD He Himself is near, and He Himself is far away; He Himself is in-between. He Himself beholds, and He...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB My time has is here, my mission has failed, but in spite of my limitations i will never loose faith....
RYAN LEONARD The grace of God is dangerous. It's lavish, excessive, outrageous, and scandalous. God's gra...
MIKE YACONELLI There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
THOMAS CARLYLE I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give the...
GENE ROBINSON Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shi...
DEYTH BANGER To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... God is never far from His people, even when they are far from Him.
MARCIA FURROW Binoculars are a distance when near the eyes. Far from home, near the heart, love.
CHARLES DE LEUSSE The rose is often found near the nettle.
UNKNOWN You have to know who to keep near you and those you should be far away from.
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.
SAINT AUGUSTINE He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absenc...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON God's plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God's ...
EDWARD MCKENDREE BOUNDS It has been religious people, often within the organized church, who have been the most critical of ...
ANNE GRAHAM LOTZ I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who he...
FRANK MCCOURT If you are near the enemy, make him believe you are far from him.
If you are far from the enemy,...
SUN-TZU Today A woman is one who tries to bring a man down. A man is one who has to keep that woman in check...
APURVA GAGLANI God is in all things, but so far as God is Divine and so far as he is rational, God is nowhere so pr...
MEISTER ECKHART Germany has an established and well-furnished Catholicism, often with employed Catholics who handle ...
POPE BENEDICT XVI In the midst of the turmoil, the fear, the anxiety that's in our nation and in our world, as I was w...
ORAL ROBERTS Dear God, save us from The Church!
LJUPKA CVETANOVA It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall l...
THOMAS AQUINAS The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.
KEITH MILLER It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hard...
VANCE HAVNER A worshipper perceives that he is near to God because he is awake all night worshipping God. But aft...
RIAZ AHMED GOHAR SHAHI My Life is boring without God
GENEREUX PHILIPUX The nearer the church, the further from God.
BISHOP LANCELOT ANDREWS (ANDREWES) The nearer the Church the further from God
LANCELOT ANDREWES Near, so very near to God,
Nearer I cannot be;
For in the person of his Son
I am as near...
CATESBY PAGET He is inside as well as outside all beings, animate and inanimate. He is incomprehensible because of...
BHAGAVAD GITA Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
COCO CHANEL Far better a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.
BIBLE Far better a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.
BIBLE Binoculars see from far when near the eyes. Far from self, near the heart, in love. (Les jumelles vo...
CHARLES DE LEUSSE The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.
BLAISE PASCAL My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as f...
FRANK ZAPPA My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as f...
FRANK ZAPPA God is not pleased with these mashed potato Christians. You know the kind that are found in the T.V....
LAMAR THOMPSON Love is a moment that last forever
TERRENCE TAYLOR Truth is Mormonism. God is the author of it.
JOSEPH SMITH, JR. If you have gotten bored with God, you have gotten disconnected with the most fascinating, intoxicat...
CATHERINE TOON If you have gotten bored with God, you have gotten disconnected with the most fascinating, intoxicat...
CATHERINE TOON There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?
JOSH BILLINGS If the moderns really want a simple religion of love, they must look for it in the Athanasian Creed....
G.K. CHESTERTON He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
LAO TZU I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI The neer to the church, the further from God.
JOHN HEYWOOD Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA God is moving outside the church walls.
CAMERON STRANG The lord is wonderfully good to those who wait for him and seek him.
N.B.: From this quote...
BIBLE Dedication is the preparation to success!
WERNER BOTHA Far from seeking to
justify, as does the Church, the necessity of torments and
afflictio...
JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come
CHINESE PROVERBS God draws near to the brokenhearted. He leans toward those who are suffering. He knows what it feels...
JOHN D. RICHARDSON Fighting the Traditional Marriage is provoking God;Beheading Jesus is to lead the church without His...
PAUL GITWAZA The minister's brain is often the "poor-box" of the church.
EDWIN PERCY WHIPPLE The minister's brain is often the "poor-box" of the church
EDWIN P. WHIPPLE Slight not what is near, while aiming at what is far.
EURIPIDES He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
B. C. FORBES He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
PLATO Success is not in what you have, but who you are.
BO BENNETT Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
BAHA'U'LLAH He who tries to protect himself from deception is often cheated,
even when most on his guard.
UNKNOWN The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroa...
DAN QUAYLE The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroa...
DAN QUAYLE The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons, with Hims...
DALLAS WILLARD Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts. God designed your body's plumbing system. Go...
PETER KREEFT Liberated from suffering and searchI have tied myself to the skirt of God.If I fly, I look at the su...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be c...
CONFUCIUS Luther says that vocations are a “mask from God. That is, God hides Himself in the workplace, the ...
GENE EDWARD VEITH JR. If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.
SUN TZU Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274 It is clear that he does not pray, wh...
THOMAS AQUINAS You yawn to equalize the pressure on your eardrums. This pressure change outside your eardrums unb...
WHY YAWNING IS CONTAGIOUS Be original, be yourself, be you.
ELISE R MAUDE IS To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off...
ORIGEN It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest ...
VANCE HAVNER Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY Church is too often the most risky place to be spiritually honest.
PETER ENNS The movement in our relationship to God is always from God to us. Always. We can't, through our piet...
NADIA BOLZ-WEBER God gives nuts to those with no teeth. -Arabic proverb.
ARABIC PROVERB Robin Goodfellow is a very old faerie. Not only that, he has ballads, poems, and stories written abo...
JULIE KAGAWA Peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near
BIBLE God is with me. Jesus is near. The Spirit is greater than my fear.
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