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Quotes About Solitude

Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation.
~ W. H. Auden
Thank God for a few free waves.
~ Miki Dora
I feel strongly that the God we meet in solitude is always the God who calls us to community.
~ Henri Nouwen
There is a strain of loneliness infecting many Christians, which only the presence of God can cure.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
The speech of God is silence. His Word is solitude.
~ Thomas Merton
One must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind.
~ Meister Eckhart
There is a divine depth in silence. We meet God alone.
~ Frederick William Robertson
I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
The best thing must be to flee from all to the All.
~ Teresa of Avila
You can't fake it when you're alone with God, you know.
~ Jim Bakker
It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.
~ Aldous Huxley
Solitude is bearable only with God.
~ Andre Gide
Thanks for comin out, God bless you, good night... What of fame? Everyone knows your face, the world screams your name And never again, are you alone...
~ Tupac Shakur
Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
~ Walter Savage Landor
Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality.
~ Gwen John
If God had intended us to be alone, there would be more pleasure in massaging our own shoulders.
~ Robert Breault
Prayer is - keeping company with God.
~ Philip Yancey
If you meet God in solitude, you discover the God you meet is the God who embraces all people.
~ Henri Nouwen
I am alone. There is no God where I am.
~ Aleister Crowley
To be unknown to God is altogether too much privacy.
~ Thomas Merton
O God, my God, the night has values that the day never dreamed of.
~ Thomas Merton
There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God.
~ Rumi
When alone with God, be alone with Him.
~ Samuel Chadwick
There is no such thing as solitude, nor anything that can be said to be alone and by itself but God, who is His own circle, and can subsist by Himself.
~ Thomas Browne