Quotes about Separation

Only God's thoughts, or love, is actually real. So when we separate ourselves from that love, we're actually not thinking at all: we're hallucinating.

Distance sometimes endears friendships, and sweetens it - for separation from those we love shows us, by the loss, their real value and dearness to us.

When the world hates you, remember that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you. But you do not belong to the world. I have brought you out of the world and that is why it hates you.

There was no life above the surface anyway.

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

The pulpit elevates the clergy to a position of prominence. True to its meaning, it puts the preacher at center "stage"—separating and placing him high above God's people.

We love because he first loved us" (1 John 4:19). We find freedom as we are touched by that first love. For it is that love that will break us away from our alienation and separation. It is a love that can soothe our compulsions to hoard and pretend we can organize the future. It is a love that allows us to love others.

In every arrival there is a leave-taking; in every reunion there is a separation; in each one's growing up there is a growing old; in every smile there is a tear; and in every success there is a loss. All living is dying, and all celebration is mortification too.

It is easier to live in the world without being of the world than to live in the church without being of the church

Farewell, my friends, my path inclines to this side the mountain, yours to that. We are no longer the representatives of our former selves.

How far is it between light and dark? They aren't even in the same room. If there's any light there at all, then it isn't dark. Likewise, to live in the state of sin means that you're completely removed from the God of light—and desperately in need of a Savior. Eternity

God not only wants to break the outer man...He wants our spirit and our soul...our inner man and outer man to be separated from each other.