God's Absence Quotes

We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

The God of Israel is sometimes a God who hides Himself, but never a God who absents Himself; sometimes in the dark, but never at a distance.

One phrase summarizes the horror of hell. "God isn't there."

Deep within every man there lies the dread of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the tremendous household of millions and millions.

God is busy and has no time for you.

It is when God appears to have abandoned us that we must abandon ourselves most wholly to God.

Your god must once have stood at a dawn of infinite possibilities, and this is what he's made of it. You tell me that I want God's love? I don't. Perhaps I want forgiveness, but there's no-one to ask it of. And there's no going back, there's no setting things right, there's only the hope of nothingness.

O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water" (Psalm 63:1). We may imagine we want a thousand different things, but God is the one we really long for. His presence brings satisfaction; his absence brings thirst and longing.

Holy Saturday. The best reminder that the silence of God doesn't equal the absence of God.

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

It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.