The consciousness of the great life that embraces all life, the sense of its nearness to us all, has been a perennial refreshing to all great hearts.
The eyes look on those faded characters, and across the great gulf of Time, the soul leaps into the Past, brought into shadowy nearness by a mirage of the mind.
But my mission is too important to risk delay, much more the nearness of yon dragoons.
He let his arm drape over the back of her chair, a stolen sense of her nearness dizzying him.
She was crowding away from his nearness against one of the storm doors which folded back against the entrance, sooty light filtering over them through a frosted door panel.
It was near noon when he woke again; and over all the ship one could feel the vibrations of excitement at thought of the nearness of Tyre, the home city.
He stumbled forward again as fast as he could, and presently caught up with them, realizing theirnearness by the distinctness of their voices; for the moon was now under a cloud, and the night was black and thick.
Her heart sank in the engulfing stillness, at that moment she felt the nearnessof death, breathing on her and on the man with her.
The meaning of the names of the tribes is suggestive, the names being in order of nearness to the central sacred portion.
Many an Israelite compassionated the poor heathen whom he left behind in the land of Egypt, and yet found that, with all his own apparent nearness to God, his heart was heathen still.
In the Uffizi one is able to examine these works closely, and they gain by this nearness to the eye, which enables one to see the minuteness of his finish.
This school was much influenced by that of Tuscany because of the nearness of the two cities and the constant communication between them, as well as by the fact that Tuscan sculptors were more or less employed in Venice.
This God-consciousness was especially manifest in the Baptist, who referred so frequently to the nearness of the kingdom of God.
Obviously, amidst such ceaselessly shifting scenes, degrees of likeness or unlikeness of physical structure indicate with the greatest exactitude the nearness or remoteness of organisms in kinship.
The miracles are connected with the Kingdom and the nearness of the Kingdom, not with the Messiah.
Jesus did not allow the thought of the nearness of the end to rob Him of His simplicity and spontaneity, and was not crippled by the reflection that everything was transitory, preparatory, a mere means to an end.
But that fact makes no difference whatever to the nearness of the coming of the Kingdom.
This is in itself sufficient to show there was a period in His life in which His work was not determined by the thought of the immediate nearness of the decisive moment.
There were bad moments, of course, when her nearness mocked me with the loss of the real woman; but gradually the distinction between the two was effaced and the mere thought of her grew warm as flesh and blood.
Of all the rooms the library was most peculiarly hers; and here I felt that her nearness might take visible shape.
Distance from the snares of pride, and lust, and passion, and other sins, is a most approved remedy, and nearness is their strength.
And the mind being limited in its activity, neglecteth, or reacheth not things too distant, and requireth some nearness of its object, as well as the sense; especially to the excitation of affections and bodily action.
Our love to God is not ordinarily so passionate as our love to creatures; because the nearnessand sensibleness of the creature promoteth such sensible operations.
He himself was provoked by the nearness of his death, to a speedy despatch of the works of his life.
Nearness of objects doth excite the faculties: we hear no sound, nor smell any odour, nor taste any sweetness, nor see any colours, that are too distant from us.
The nearness to us also is an aggravation: it is not a distant evil, but in our bowels, in our very hearts; we are bound so strictly to love ourselves, that it is a great aggravation to do ourselves so great a mischief.
Let not the tempting object be too near your sense; for nearness enrageth the sensitive appetite, and giveth you an opportunity of sinning.
What a pitiful sight was it to see Christ stand weeping over Jerusalem, for the hardness of their hearts, and the nearness and greatness of their misery!
But the warriors, heartened by the confident bearing of their leader, held fast in spite of the fearful nearness of distended jaws and gleaming fangs.
The thought of her nearness brought an almost painful sensation of swelling deep within his chest and a strange ache at his wrists.
They are used only as vehicles to bring home to us the idea that God's nearness is our highest good.
The pious soul realized the nearness of the Deity in hearing His name pronounced.
Yet it is just this Being of all Beings who draws us irresistibly toward Himself, whose nearness we perceive in the very depths of our intellectual and emotional life.
This is the nearness of God referred to by the Psalmist and declared to be man's highest good.
But he measured his claims by his nearnessto the king; he compared these inferior dignities with the state and power usurped by his brother, and his arrogant spirit disdained as a meanness the thought of resting satisfied or appeased.
The nearness of God is especially emphasised in relation to prayer.
Yet he was beginning to comprehend that there was something very pleasant and companionable in the nearness of Muskwa.
The nearness of her, the touch of her heavy hair, the caress of her breath stirred him still more deeply with the strange, new emotion that was born in him, and in the darkness he found and kissed a pair of lips, soft and warm.
Owing to the nearness of the stamps on the sheets the perforation generally cut into the stamps, either at the top or bottom, and cut these lines, but the remains will be found on the points left between the holes.
This was a happy and a holy use to make of his place of nearness to God.
Moreover, she occupied a place of nearnessand intimacy known only to herself.
