Quotes about Absence
It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors.
— AW Pink
May the Lord watch between thee and me while we are absent the one from the other.
— Ernest Hemingway
The three of us sat at the table, and it seemed as though about six people were missing.
— Ernest Hemingway
We all need the pendulum swing of snatching spaces of solitude and serving tables of sociability. In fact, the more plugged in and connected we are, the more we need to unplug and disconnect. A world of presence needs a time of absence.
— Leonard Sweet
God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.
— Albert Einstein
Lately, she's been wondering if perhaps when the living become the dead they leave an empty space behind, a hollow no one else can fill.
— Alice Hoffman
People all over town had listened for my grandfather's cries, but there were none. Only silence.
— Alice Hoffman
I see that a lot in my own life and in the lives of others.Does the presence of pain mean the absence of God?
— Max Lucado
By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
— Anonymous
He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
— Anonymous
The absence of a thing, can be as deadly as the presence.
— Frank Herbert
Let us pray to God that other gifts may not so satisfy us, that we never grasp the fact that the absence of this grace (humility) is the secret cause why the power of God cannot do its mighty work.
— Andrew Murray