“God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.”

Tears and Saints (1937)

The Purpose of Life, p. 53
The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For? (2002)

Source: Wind from the Stars

After the Ending
Lyrics, The Empyrean (2009)

June 16
Quotes from Daily Negations (2007)

The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), VIII : From God to God
Context: In the vast all of the Universe, must there be this unique anomaly — a consciousness that knows itself, loves itself and feels itself, joined to an organism which can only live within such and such degrees of heat, a merely transitory phenomenon? No, it is not mere curiosity that inspires the wish to know whether or not the stars are inhabited by living organisms, by consciousness akin to our own, and a profound longing enters into that dream that our souls shall pass from star to star through the vast spaces of the heavens, in an infinite series of transmigrations. The feeling of the divine makes us wish and believe that everything is animated, that consciousness, in a greater or less degree, extends through everything. We wish not only to save ourselves, but to save the world from nothingness. And therefore God. Such is his finality as we feel it.

Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)