Quotes about Emptiness

Wholeness will only come when we give ourselves wholly to God and let Him fill every empty place in our lives.

When I preach—no matter where it is in the world—I can always count on five areas of human need that afflict all peoples. Emptiness, loneliness, guilt, fear of death, deep-seated insecurity.

America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the greatest variety and greatest number of artificial amusements of any country. People have become so empty that they can't even entertain themselves.

Loneliness is no respecter of persons. It invades the palace as well as the hut.

I believe we should pray that God will take possession of our lives totally and completely. We should pray that we will be emptied of self— self-love, self-will, self-ambition—and be placed completely at His disposal.

Some years ago I was invited to be on a television talk show with one of the most famous personalities in America. Afterward she took me aside and told of the emptiness in her life. "My beauty is gone," she said, "I am getting old, I'm living on alcohol, and I have nothing to live for.

Much of the world believes little or nothing. People are broad but shallow. Agnosticism, anxiety, emptiness, and meaninglessness have gripped much of the world—and even the church... By contrast, our Pilgrim forebears stand as shining examples of men who were narrow but deep, certain of what they believed, unswerving in their loyalty, and passionately dedicated to the God they trusted, and for whom they would willingly have died.

Some of the most miserable people I have ever met have been people who are very popular with the public, but down inside are empty and miserable.

In our day many people are broad but shallow. Agnosticism, anxiety, and emptiness have gripped much of our world.

The line of lovelessness is not drawn between speaking and doing, but between speaking and doing in the truth, and speaking and doing in emptiness. Truth turns word-love into deed-love.

If all we mean by our love is a craving to be loved, we are in a very deplorable state.

I am convinced that without a gutlevel experience of our profound spiritual emptiness, it is not possible to encounter the living God.