Famous quotes containing the words shortest and/or distance:
“Jesus wept.”
—Bible: New Testament John, 11:35.
The shortest verse in the Bible; refers to Jesus’ grief at the death of Lazarus, whom he raised from the dead after four days.
“No doubt, the short distance to which you can see in the woods, and the general twilight, would at length react on the inhabitants, and make them savages. The lakes also reveal the mountains, and give ample scope and range to our thought.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)