absence Quotes

God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.

This peace is not the absence of anything. Real peace is the presence of something beautiful. Both peace and the thirst for it have been in the heart of every human being in every century and every civilization.

The 'peace' the gospel brings is never the absence of conflict, but an ineffable divine reassurance within the heart of conflict; a peace that surpasses understanding.

Courage is not the absence of fear, courage is acting in spite of fear.

One hopes to achieve the zero option, but in the absence of that we must achieve balanced numbers.

An absence of meaning opens a gap in time.

Peace is not just the absence of war, it is the active presence of a capacity for love and compassion, and reciprocity. It is an awareness that our lives are not to be lived simply for ourselves through expressing our individuality, but we confirm the purpose of our lives through the work of expressing our shared sense of community in a purposeful and practical way; to sustain our own lives we sustain the lives of others - in family, in a community of neighborhoods called a city, and in a community of nations called th

Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.

Why is love intensified by absence?

Being oppressed means the absence of choices

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to me that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is \'timing\' it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.

In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. The substitute is usually embraced with vehemence and extremism, for we have to convince ourselves that what we took as second choice is the best there ever was. Thus blind faith is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves; insatiable desire a substitute for hope; accumulation a substitute for growth; fervent hustling a substitute for purposeful action; and pride a substitute for an unattaina

Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence.

COURAGE isn't an absence of fear. It is doing what you are afraid to do, letting go of the familiar and forging ahead into new territory. What I have discovered is that the best leaders have the courage to act - are willing to take the risk, make the statement, point the way, lead the way - when others hesitate out of fear. Effective leadership requires the ability to stand up, stand out, and the conviction to do it. I have never known a successful leader that was not courageous.

The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It's the presence of a reconciling spirit.

If I have seen a little further, it is because of the height limit and absence of overhead wires.

We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.

The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of violence against innocents.

The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a hare.

In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.

But I still always felt the absence of a mother.

In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex.

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

When all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt.

Formality Thus the absence of all mention of particular things or properties in logic or pure mathematics is a necessary result of the fact that this study is, as we say, \'purely formal\'.

Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear....