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Absent Quotes by Thomas Keating
- St. Teresa of Avila wrote: 'All difficulties in prayer can be traced to one cause: praying as if God were absent.' This is the conviction…
- The modern world lies under a pervasive sense of anguish, of being abandoned, or at least experiencing God as absent. Yet events that seem to…
More Absent Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust could not… — Annie Besant
- I observed once to Goethe that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when… — Arthur Schopenhauer
- One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American… — Henry James
- The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse. — Benjamin Franklin
- Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose… — John Calvin
- All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and… — Germaine Greer
- Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows. — Lucretius