Quotes about Absence

I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there.

When we speak of peace, we should not mean just the absence of war. True peace rests on the pillars of individual freedom, human rights, national self-determination, and respect for the rule of law.

The entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her!

For what is not connected with her to me? and what does not recall her? I cannot look down to this floor, but her features are shaped on the flags! In every cloud, in every tree - filling the air at nights, and caught by glimpses in every object, by day I am surrounded with her image! The most ordinary faces of men, and women - my own features - mock me with a resemblance. The entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her!

The more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn't there.

The withdrawal of the king from the narrative exposes the king as an irrelevance. The one with all the power can do nothing to save. Because it is only "my God who saves.

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.

Praying is what confirms our true belief that we cannot succeed without God, and its absence confirms the exact opposite.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.

The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching.

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.