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draw near

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Meaning

move towards

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'My sheep hear My voice' (Jn. 10:14). This is just another way of saying, 'They obey my words and keep My commandments.' Obeying the commandments the saints draw near to God; the more they draw near to God, the better they know Him. Dorotheus of Gaza

If we seem to get no good by attempting to draw near to Him, we may be sure we will get none by keeping away from Him. John Newton

The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made; Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. Edmund Waller

Spinoza is the Christ of philosophers, and the greatest philosophers are hardly more than apostles who distance themselves from or draw near to this mystery. Baruch Spinoza

Read the heart and not the letter for the pen cannot draw near the good intent. Michelangelo

I see not a step before me as I tread on another year;But I've left the Past in God's keeping,-the FutureHis mercy shall clear;And what looks dark in the distance may brighten as I draw near. Mary Gardiner Brainard

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