Afar Quotes - Page 8

• Look back to the cross, and the disciples gazing on it in terror from afar, and then look around on the nations that are influenced by the faith that there centres - and note the change! Then take these elements, established in history, and calculate the orbit Christianity is to fill.

  Richard Salter Storrs

  Orbit, Gazing, Looks

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 142), 1895.

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• Wishes, like painted landscapes, best delight,
  Whilst distance recommends them to the sight.
  Plac'd afar off, they beautiful appear:
  But show their coarse and nauseous colors near.

  Thomas Yalden

  Beautiful, Distance, Sight

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• My theory on Jenks: The guys look really good from afar, but once they come up to our table they are jacked hideous. It reminds me of the aquarium next door to Jenks, where it's just good to look. The moment you tap on the glass and make them come to you, it just freaks you out.

  JWoww

  Glasses, Doors, Aquariums

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• I shall love my kind of love anyway, doggedly, for I must certainly do the best I can with my own nature and if my nature is to love too well or from afar or to be grateful for crumbs...well, so be it.

  Carol Emshwiller

  Grateful, Kind, Crumbs

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• Space is still filled with the noise of destruction and annihilation, the shouts of self-assurance and arrogance, the weeping of despair and helplessness. But round about the horizon the eternal realities stand silent in their age-old longing. There shines on them already the first mild light of the radiant fulfillment to come. From afar sound the first notes as of pipes and voices, not yet discernable as a song or melody. It is all far off still, and only just announced and foretold. But it is happening, today.

  Alfred Delp

  Song, Reality, Self

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• Why can't I love him (a 2 yr old nephew) from afar? That's how I want to love him - through pictures and folklore.

  Ray Romano

  I Love Him, Nephew, Want

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• Why do we have to have people come from afar to come and grow food for us, or to grow food to sell to us? It is partly because we are almost becoming used to people doing things for us. Like somebody else is going to solve that problem for us. And that to me is very disempowering system.

  Wangari Maathai

  People, Becoming, Problem

  Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

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