Meaning of absence makes the heart go yonder | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of long absent, soon forgotten (“separation can result in someone finding other emotional attachments”)

Examples

“Does Absence Make the Heat Grow Fonder? Sometimes. And sometimes absence makes the heart go yonder.”

“Work if you must, but don't take a night job. Absence makes the heart go yonder.”

“Absence makes the heart go yonder, sweetheart. Wherever he's at, that's where you need to be also.”

“There is truth in the old adage "Absence makes the heart grow fonder," but it is also true that "Absence makes the heart go yonder." Intimacy with God cannot survive and grow without a sense of God's actual presence with His people in the here and now.”

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