We should not seek to confirm God's will by the absence of…

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Hell is God's Absence.

— Edmund White

“But here we see the peace of God is not the absence of negative thoughts, it is the presence of God himself.”

— Tim Keller

“It occurs to me that my thinking has been faulty: we do not feel God's absence. We feel the absence of all that is…

— K.J. Bishop

“The unavoidable sign of not being God is the absence of foreknowledge!”

— Anonymous

The peace of God is not the absence of fear. It, in fact, is His presence.

— Timothy Keller

“Religious despair is often a defense against boredom and the daily grind of existence. Lacking intensity in our lives, we say that we are…

— Christian Wiman

“The absence of God is nothing more than the absence of me.”

— Lionel Suggs

“We tell each other things that have no relation to the afternoon’s events or the coming night but that relate to God, to his…

— Marguerite Duras

Praying is what confirms our true belief that we cannot succeed without God, and its absence confirms the exact opposite.

— James MacDonald

“What we view as God’s absence or lack of quickness to change our circumstances or fix our problems is really God waiting for the…

— Tracie Miles

Play is an expression of God's presence in the world; one clear sign of God's absence in society is the absence of playfulness and…

— Mike Yaconelli

“God’s absence in the carnage is due to one single rather unnerving fact; that at some time past He honored our request that He…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“[T]hat finally is the questions, that is the anguish--to abide in God's hiddenness is one thing, to abide in God's absence is altogether something…

— Lauren F. Winner

“When I think of the years when I had no faith, what I am struck by, first of all, is how little this lack…

— Christian Wiman