Quotes About Absence

And so, there is nothing to practice because we are always already enlightened, always already Absence somehow open to the world.

Many people feel they are missing someone

Since there was no teacher listed for lunch, I grabbed a pen and wrote Mr. E Meat.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

I used up all my sick days, so I'm calling in dead.

Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God.

God must have been on leave during the Holocaust.

Where there is nothing, there is God.

Deism, historically, produces atheism. First you make God a landlord, then an absent landlord, then he becomes simply absent.

I don't believe in God, but I miss him.

I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there.

My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one.

Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.

Atheism is the absence of a belief in a god, nothing more. If the theist wishes to draw monumental implications from this lack of belief, he must argue for his claims.

There are absolute atheists ... Absolute atheism is in no way a mere absence of belief in God. It is rather a refusal of God, a fight against God, a challenge to God.

God's away, God's away, God's away on business. Business!

Where God's presence is no longer a tenable proposition and where his absence is no longer a felt, indeed overwhelming weight, certain dimensions of thought and creativity are no longer attainable.

I bring up God alot in my show, know why? Because I miss him.

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

The God of merely traditional believers is the great Absentee of the universe.

You say, The sensed absence of God and the sensed presence amount to much the same thing, only in reverse.

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

God isn't dead - he's just missing in action.

Your absence is the presence of godliness.