Quotes about Emptiness
even God could do nothing for someone already full. You have to be completely empty to let Him in to do what He will.
— Mother Teresa
Trying to fill the God-sized hole in our hearts with things other than God is like trying to fill the Grand Canyon with marbles.
— Peter Kreeft
If you want God's grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing.
— Timothy Keller
It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself.
— Mother Teresa
We must free ourselves to be filled by God. Even God cannot fill what is full.
— Mother Teresa
Our only qualitifcation for God's grace is our emptiness, not our fullness; our undeservingness, not our deservingness.
— Peter Kreeft
The more we empty ourselves, the more room we give God to fill us.
— Mother Teresa
One phrase summarizes the horror of hell. "God isn't there."
— Max Lucado
Spiritual emptiness is a universal disease.
— Rick Warren
Each of us has a God-shaped space within us. Only God can fill that space. But we run ourselves ragged trying to find things other than God to fill it with.
— Desmond Tutu