Quotes about Nothingness

The call to humility has been too little regarded in the church because its true nature and importance have been too little apprehended. It is not something that we bring to God, or that He bestows; it is simply the sense of entire nothingness that comes when we see how truly God is everything.

As a sunbeam perishes when cut off from the sun, so man apart from God would pass back into the void of nothingness from which he first leaped at the creative call.

God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.

If there ever was a time when absolutely nothing existed, all there could possibly be now is nothing.

Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present in you, lives in you, dwells in you, calls you, saves you and offers you an understanding and compassion which are like nothing you have ever found in a book or heard in a sermon.

For nothing comes from nothing; nothing ever could.

If ever there were a time there was nothing, there would be nothing now.

IN order that Love may be fully satisfied it must needs stoop to very nothingness and transform that nothing into fire.

That we may merge into the deep and dazzling darkness, vanish into it, dissolve in it forever in an unbelievable bliss beyond imagination, for absolute nothingness represents absolute bliss.

The communion rail is a place of exchange. They give time and receive eternity, they give self-denial and receive love, they give nothingness, and receive all.

God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.

The whole difficulty of understanding Hell is that the thing to be understood is so nearly nothing.