Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the…

“The sense of modernism is often seen in the determination of each of the arts to come as close as possible to its own…

— Milan Kundera

Men... look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But they can no longer think like the child...

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

“history is our attempt to reconstruct the past from the evidence that remains”

— Anonymous

The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.

— Thomas Paine

The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Lionel Suggs

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

— Tullian Tchividjian

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

— Peter Kreeft

for in the absence of God he had found Man. Man killing man, man helping man, both of them anonymous: the scourge and the…

— Guillermo del Toro

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

— Margaret Atwood

“How to describe hell? Disembowelled landscape busy with suffering, incessant heat, permanent scarlet twilight, a swirling snowfall of ash, the stink of pain and…

— Glen Duncan

“Please don’t interpret the presence of your disease as the absence of God’s love. I pray he heals you. And he will, ultimately.”

— Thomas Nelson

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

The absence of God in most spheres of life is perceived to be normal, and even Christians feel it as normal - which is…

— John Piper