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Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people. -- Theodor Adorno
To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe. -- E. Stanley Jones
All separation, every kind of estrangement and alienation is false. All is one... -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach. -- Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Once we are reconciled to God, the estrangement is over, the hostilities have ended, and the peace is sealed for eternity. -- R. C. Sproul
Fishing should be a ceremony that reaffirms our place in the natural world and helps us resist further estrangement from our origins. -- Thomas McGuane
All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of his acquaintances. -- Mark Twain
I think it's much more radical to see and show things as they look instead of making them somehow subversive through alienation or estrangement. -- Wolfgang Tillmans
Indeed in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that divides all those who still oppose him. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
It's clear to me that anyone, anywhere, can experience loneliness, isolation, solitude, and estrangement; and most people probably do encounter these things at some point in their lives. -- Brendan Myers
Because I was once a reporter, I've always felt a sense of estrangement inside the newsroom. The field is alive and interactive, while the newsroom is quiet and stereotypical. -- Wadah Khanfar
The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other and neither of them feels the irony. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Coming to life as classics, they come to life as other than themselves; they are deprived of their antagonistic force, of the estrangement which was the very dimension of their truth. -- Herbert Marcuse
Genuine forgiveness is participation, reunion overcoming the powers of estrangement. . . We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love. -- Paul Tillich
There is not so agonizing a feeling in the whole catalogue of human suffering as the first conviction that the heart of the being whom we most tenderly love is estranged from us. -- Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer
Is not our chief neurosis - by which I mean our estrangement from nature - our desire to hold fast to what is forever transforming, to freeze the familiar, to submit motion to stasis, to solicit immortality through rigidity. -- James Hollis
Magic is another word that makes people uneasy, so I use it deliberately, because words they are comfortable with, the words that sound acceptable, rational, scientific, and intellectually sound, are comfortable precisely because they are the language of estrangement. -- Starhawk
There could have never been two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement. -- Jane Austen
Real religion should be something that liberates men. But churches don't want free men who can think for themself and find their own divinity within. When a religion becomes organized it is no longer a religious experience but only superstition and estrangement. -- Federico Fellini
Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other. The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement. -- Adrienne Rich
It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
When you're younger you just want to go out and make your mark in the world and doing that, quite often, the people that you love the most and the people you should be closest to suffer from estrangement. I'd be gone nine months a year, so how do you know anyone? When you come home you are a stranger. -- Sylvester Stallone
Refuse to think in terms of this or that. All pain needs investigation. The mind is nothing else but the self. Assumption obscures reality without destroying it. All separation, every kind of estrangement and alienation is false..Your being a person is due to the illusion of space and time.The mind creates time and space and takes its own creations for reality. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Our incredible bewilderment (wilderness separation) blinds us from seeing that our many personal and global problems primarily result from our assault of and separation from the natural creation process within and around us. Our estrangement from nature leaves us wanting,and when we want there is never enough. Our insatiable wanting is called greed. It is a major source of our destructive dependencies and violence. -- Michael J Cohen
All coming to Jesus has the feeling of homecoming upon it. All going away from Him has the sense of estrangement upon it. The rich young ruler went away from Jesus "sorrowful." Everybody does. Not only estrangement from God, but also estrangement from oneself. And the universe! And from life! You are not at home with life, unless you are at home with Life. And Jesus is Life! -- E. Stanley Jones
Ask 10 people about their family relationships and at least five of them will report an estrangement. -- Amy Dickinson
The children of warriors in our country learn the grace and caution that come from a permanent sense of estrangement. -- Pat Conroy
The ending can only start with the beginning and end with self estrangement, as to become once again his own/old self. This is why every man is a continuous ending. -- Sorin Cerin
People need a consistent explanation of the cross of Christ and what it accomplished. Christ's atoning work is the centerpiece of the gospel and the only solution for humanity's estrangement from our Creator. -- R. C. Sproul

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