Quotes about Absence
The conspicuous absence of the lynching tree in American theological discourse and preaching is profoundly revealing, especially since the crucifixion was clearly a first-century lynching.
- James H. Cone
Praying is what confirms our true belief that we cannot succeed without God, and its absence confirms the exact opposite.
- James MacDonald
I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
- St. Augustine
It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.
- GK Chesterton
The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching.
- Phillips Brooks
But in our experience, man is cheap and friendship wants its deep sense. We affect to dwell with our friends in their absence, but we do not; when deed, word, or letter comes not, they let us go.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A schizophrenic is a person who already has a natural tendency to absent himself from this world.
- Paulo Coelho
Christianity does not look on this world as one which God very occasionally invades; it looks on it as a world from which he is never absent.
- William Barclay
Deism, historically, produces atheism. First you make God a landlord, then an absent landlord, then he becomes simply absent.
- NT Wright
The grandest discourse ever delivered is an ostentatious failure if the doctrine of the grace of God be absent from it.
- Charles Spurgeon
I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there.
- Robert Frost
Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.
- Peter Kreeft