Nothing is nearer to us than heaven. The earth is beneath our feet, and we tread upon it, but heaven is within us.
Because God is with you all the time, no place is any closer to God than the place where you are right now.
We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts
We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.
Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
Thou oughtest to know, since thou livest near the gods. [Lat., Scire, deos quoniam propius contingis, oportet.]
We are as near to heaven as we are far from self, and far from the love of a sinful world.
The distance between the glorified spirits in heaven and the militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home. Heaven... is just one sigh and we get there. Our departed friends are only in the upper room, as it were, of the same house; they have not gone far off; they are upstairs and we are down below.
One will observe that all things are arranged according to their degrees of beauty and excellence, and that the nearer they are to God, the more beautiful and better they are.
Of two men who have no experience of God, he who denies him is perhaps nearer to him than the other.
We are always searching for God afar off, when all the while He is nearer to us than our own soul.
The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
Take heed of thinking. The farther you go from the church of Rome, the nearer you are to God.
Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.
Science boasts of the distance of its stars; of the terrific remoteness of the things of which it has to speak. But poetry and religion always insist upon the proximity, the almost menacing closeness of the things with which they are concerned. Always the Kingdom of Heaven is "At Hand."
Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
The distance between glorified spirits in heaven and militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home-a moment will bring us there.
