Quotes on Loneliness & Abandonment
Christian quotes on Loneliness & Abandonment — with author, dates and source, from two millennia of Christian thought.
In me it is dark, but with you there is light; I am lonely, but you do not leave me.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
C.S. Lewis
The worst hunger can be the hunger to be noticed and loved.
Mother Teresa
When no one listens to me anymore, God still listens to me.
Pope Benedict XVI
I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.
Helen Keller
We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.
Helen Keller
For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
T.S. Eliot
Language has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone.
Paul Tillich
He hears the sighs of your soul and the heart's silent lament, and what you may tell no one, you may boldly say to God.
Paul Gerhardt
When we withdraw into silence and solitude, we lay down our office as chief of the universe.
Richard J. Foster
Lord Jesus, I am not alone, for You are with me. I have buried my wives and my daughter, but You are still here. I am never alone or lonely with You and Your smile, which is better than life itself!
George Muller
The God of Israel, the Saviour, is sometimes a God who hides himself, but never a God who withdraws; sometimes in the dark, but never at a distance.
Matthew Henry
Lord Jesus Christ, you were poor and wretched, captive and forsaken as I am. You know all human need; you remain with me when no one stands by me; you do not forget me and you seek me; you want me to know you and to turn to you. Lord, I hear your call and follow. Help me! Holy Spirit, give me the faith that saves me from despair and vice. Give me the love for God and for others that destroys all hatred and bitterness; give me the hope that frees me from fear and faintheartedness. Teach me to know Jesus Christ and to do his will.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The only person who has ever truly been forsaken by God was Jesus Christ on the cross.
Detlev Fleischhammel
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the worst poverty.
Mother Teresa
Let him who cannot be alone beware of community; let him who is not in community beware of being alone.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The poverty of being unwanted and unloved can be harder to relieve than material lack.
Mother Teresa
Whoever is plagued with the spirit of sadness should beware to the utmost and see to it that he is not alone.
Martin Luther
The eight most spectacular words falling on the ear of a lonely kid clutching a tray: “You can sit with us if you want.”
Beth Moore
We don't actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.
T.S. Eliot
If your friend is sick and dying, the most important thing he wants is not an explanation; he wants you to sit with him. He's terrified of being alone more than anything else. So, God has not left us alone.
Lee Strobel
Who can listen to a story of loneliness and despair without taking the risk of experiencing similar pains in his own heart and even losing his precious peace of mind? In short: “Who can take away suffering without entering it?
Henri Nouwen
What do you think it feels like for someone who has no one to pray for him?
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Where heaven above us is opened, there foreign land becomes home.
Friedrich von Bodelschwingh
The only one who understands us is the One who made us.
Oswald Chambers
Whether we are happy or downcast, in lively company or all alone: Jesus is with us, and he is closer to us than we think.
Peter Strauch
In times of abandonment we become free from having to feel spiritually good, and learn to trust.
Richard J. Foster
To be with Christ means to be at home.
Friedrich von Bodelschwingh
In every human being there is a part of loneliness that no human intimacy can fill. It is there that God meets us.
Brother Roger
If a person were given all the splendor of the world, what good is it if he has no friend to tell it to.
Catharina Elisabeth Goethe
Whoever finds in Christ the end of their loneliness is free for fellowship with others.
Peter Hahne
There are experiences of divine love that are given to us only in utter abandonment, indeed at the edge of despair.
Gertrud von le Fort
Always searching isn't nice. Sometimes you want to come home too.
Kurt Tucholsky
This is hard: a life for two. Only one thing is harder: being alone.
Kurt Tucholsky
Faith is trusting that God is doing his work in me, even when I feel cold, hollow, lifeless and forsaken inside, and long for comforting feelings.
Pamela Reeve
The more a person is forsaken by others, the more they are comforted by divine mercy.
Gertrude of Helfta
People who wear a mask cannot expect their tears to be seen.
Arno Backhaus
Christmas is not only the feast of those who give, but also of those who have nothing to give or no one to give it to.
Romano Guardini
The first negative judgment we find in Holy Writ is a judgment on loneliness. God said, “It is not good for man to be alone.”
R.C. Sproul
We're built to do hard things but not to do them in isolation.
Tish Harrison Warren
People quoted here
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, C.S. Lewis, Mother Teresa, Pope Benedict XVI, Helen Keller, T.S. Eliot, Paul Tillich, Paul Gerhardt, Richard J. Foster, George Muller, Matthew Henry, Detlev Fleischhammel
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