“What the soul hardly realizes is that, unbeliever or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God.”
“The soul hardly ever realizes it, but whether he is a believer or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God.”
“The first night in a new place usually gives me a tinny, homesick feeling that makes it hard to sleep. Not homesick for anywhere in particular. Just a general feeling of uprootedness. Loneliness. Even if people I love are sleeping nearby.”
“Hell is only loneliness, a place without play for the soul, a place without God. How could there be God in loneliness when God is presence?”
“Spiritual yearning is the homesickness of the soul.”
“Philosophy is really homesickness.”