'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
The so-called inseparable cohesions of national interests vanish away as soon as you draw near to examine them. There are individual interests and a general interest, those two only. Henri Barbusse
What is Mysticism? Is it not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Florence Nightingale