Jeff Mangum Quotes

God is found in this Life ... to wait for another is folly.

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.

All around the world, we are gazing skyward waiting for God… Never realizing that God is waiting for us.

I think there's probably a God-shaped hole in everybody's being. Even if God only exists in people's minds, He's still a force.

This Catholic thing, I think what it does is it makes a place for mystery in a person. And even when the faith goes away, there's that space where you crave something bigger than yourself. For me, that's kind of where art came in, after that.

Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.

Faith and hope bring us through time but leave us at the doorstep of eternity. Only love goes with us inside.

Down inside we have a longing for God-what Pascal called "the vacuum which God left behind.

Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.

It's not possible to search for God using the methods of a detective... There is no way. You can only wait till God's axe severs your roots: then you will understand that you are here only through a miracle, and you will remain fixed forever in wonderment and equilibrium.

Look for God. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.

Something deep in all of us yearns for God's beauty, and we can find it no matter where we are.

If there were no way into God, I would not have lain in the grave of this body so long.

Your absence is the presence of godliness.

Finding God in All Things.

Where do you go when you die? Ha ha. Go on, go on and tell her, Billy." Billy smiles. "You become a little voice in someone's ear telling them that things will be alright.

Where there is faith there is an awareness of holiness.

There is no place in the world but contains some trace of God.

Give me faith, Lord, to know Your Presence as surely as I know the beating of my own heart. I've felt so far from You.

We can still hear the voices that echo through history. Their message is as true today as ever. The people of Poland, the people of America, and the people of Europe still cry out "We want God."

What I affirm is the intuition that where God's presence is no longer a tenable supposition and where His absence is no longer a felt, indeed overwhelming weight, certain dimensions of thought and creativity are no longer attainable. And I would vary Yeats's axiom so as to say: no man can read fully, can answer answeringly to the aesthetic, whose "nerve and blood" are at peace in sceptical rationality, are now at home in immanence and verification. We must read as if.

If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its church.

A lot of blues music seems like it's moving away from God, or the center, and Gospel music is moving towards it. It's embracing a higher reality. When you look a little closer, the way that I define it or explain it, is that the blues is the naked cry of the human heart, apart from God. People are searching for union with God. They're searching to be home. There's something in people that seeks this union with their creator. Why am I here? Where am I going? What's it all about? Who am I? All this kind of stuff.

It wasn't that [he] believed in religion, or a God, or an afterlife. He just knew it was impossible to feel this much love and for it to end.