Quotes About Emptiness

God, I'm glad I'm not me.

Trying to fill the God-sized hole in our hearts with things other than God is like trying to fill the Grand Canyon with marbles.

You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.

Where there is nothing, there is God.

It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself.

It's hard to grieve in a town where everything that happens is God's will. It's hard to know what to do with your emptiness when you're not supposed to have emptiness.

I run blindly through the madhouse ... And I cannot even pray ... For I have no God.

God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine.

We must free ourselves to be filled by God. Even God cannot fill what is full.

Our only qualitifcation for God's grace is our emptiness, not our fullness; our undeservingness, not our deservingness.

Unhappiness was my god.

The more we empty ourselves, the more room we give God to fill us.

The secular world is full of holes. We have secularized badly.

God is the celebrity author of the world's best seller. We have made god into the biggest celebrity of all, to contain our own emptiness.

You cannot simply discard God like a box that has been emptied.

To pray is, first of all, to let one's mind be empty. It is to cast aside for a while "the self" that has existed until now, letting only God live in one's heart.

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

Let us remain as empty as possible so that God can fill us up.

For every person is a gaping space waiting to be filled with God.

God happens only when you have moved out of the way and left yourself totally empty, spacious. It is a very strange phenomenon: The guest only comes inside the house when the host disappears.

Spiritual emptiness is a universal disease.

Perhaps God waits for us to be empty, so he may fill us with himself.

Each of us has a God-shaped space within us. Only God can fill that space. But we run ourselves ragged trying to find things other than God to fill it with.