Divine Separation Quotes

I want a heart which is split, part by part, because of the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longing and complaint to it.

Man’s will is free to follow his inclinations, but fallen man’s inclinations are always and invariably away from God.

In ancient times, people weren't just male or female, but one of three types: male/male, male/female, female/female. In other words, each person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy with this arrangement and never really gave it much a thought. But then God took a knife and cut everybody in half, right down the middle. So after that the world was divided just into male and female, the upshot being that people spend their time running around trying to locate their missing other half.

Sin is absence of God. Nothing more, nothing less.

Sin is not wrong doing, it is wrong BEING, deliberate and emphatic independence of God.

If you do not take the distinction between good and bad very seriously, then it is easy to say that anything you find in this world is a part of God. But, of course, if you think some things really bad, and God really good, then you cannot talk like that. You must believe that God is separate from the world and that some of the things we see in it are contrary to His will.

There have been times that I've wept as I've gone from city to city and I've seen how far people have wandered from God.

It is a most unhappy state to be at a distance with God: man needs no greater infelicity than to be left to himself.

I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want.

Consciousness of myself, combined with complete ignorance of everything that does not fall within my sphere of thinking, is the most telling proof of my substantiality outside God, of my original existence.

The marvel of the Redemptive Reality of God is that the worst and the vilest can never get to the bottom of His Love. Paul did not say that God separated him to show what a wonderful man He could make of him, but to "to reveal His Son in me

Because no other could do it, he himself went to the greatest possible distance, the infinite distance. This infinite distance between God and God, this supreme tearing apart, this incomparable agony, this marvel of love, is the crucifixion. Nothing can be further from God than that which has been made accursed.

With the Fall all became abnormal. It is not just that the individual is separated from God by his true moral guilt, but each of us is not what God made us to be. Beyond each of us as individuals, human relationships are not what God meant them to be. And beyond that, nature is abnormal - the whole cause-and-effect significant history is now abnormal. To say it another way: there is much in history now which should not be.

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation.

Holiness is not merely a feeling, state of mind, or good intention. It involves practical separation from sin and real separation unto God.

Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.

Even among the angels, there is the sadness of division.