Quotes about Absence
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
You say, the sensed absence of God and the sensed presence amount to much the same thing, only in reverse.
— Margaret Atwood
One phrase summarizes the horror of hell. "God isn't there."
— Max Lucado