Faith is a response to evidence, not a rejoicing in the absence of evidence. — John Lennox Copy Share Image
Joy is not necessarily the absence of suffering, it is the presence of God. — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
Peace in a country does not mean absence of war but when things are in order. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
From the point of view of enlightenment, none of this has ever even been. All time and space, all the conditions that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The true opposite of depression is not gaiety or absence of pain, but vitality: the freedom to experience spontaneous feelings. — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
The 'peace' the gospel brings is never the absence of conflict, but an ineffable divine reassurance within the heart of conflict; a… — Walter Wink Copy Share Image
When you part from your friend, you grieve not. For that which you love most in himmay be clearer in his absence — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest… — Alexander Sutherland Neill Copy Share Image
Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of… — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
When we don't get that escape from our work selves, I think we feel its absence on a deep, almost primal level.… — Katrina Onstad Copy Share Image
Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
Peace is something more than the absence of war, although some nations would be thankful for that alone today. A durable and… — Willy Brandt Copy Share Image
I do understand that you can look into someone’s eyes,” I heard myself saying, “and suddenly know that life will be impossible… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
Hinduism especially - in the absence of codified rituals or a book of rules to circumscribe it - has always functioned as… — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The time will come, and probably during 2009, that the only way the U.S. will be able to fund its deficits is… — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
In this game he had acquired a great deal of muddled knowledge, more than one approximation and less than one certitude. And… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
Part of the pleasure of giving a reading comes from the rapport between the audience and the poet. I don't want to… — Ron Padgett Copy Share Image
A tree, young or old, if admired, remains a definite vision, and when after long absence it is visited again, the meeting… — Charles Eley Copy Share Image
I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of having such… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The history of religions reaches down and makes contact with that which is essentially human: the relation of man to the sacred.… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
What's amazing to me is how many of the issues facing women in the ancient world still linger today. Take Odysseus' wife,… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
Peace is not merely the absence of war. Nor can it be reduced solely to the maintenance of a balance of power… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
It is only love that has already fallen sick that is killed by absence. — Diane de Poitiers Copy Share Image
And consider: it is loss to which everything flows, absence in which everything flowers — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Absence makes the heart grow fonder and tears are only rain to make love grow. — Ray Charles Copy Share Image
Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
