Quotes about Still
And there came a voice from above the expanse over their heads as they stood still with their wings lowered.
- Ezekiel 1:25
All this I have spoken to you while I am still with you.
- John 14:25
0 little town of Bethlehem How still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by.
- Phillips Brooks
This morning I am wonderfully peaceful. Just like a storm that has spent itself.
- Virginia Woolf
The days go by, through the brief silence of winter, when the sunshine is so still and pure, like iced wine, and the dead leaves gleam brown, and water sounds hoarse in the ravines.
- DH Lawrence
Lord, you have appointed some to be prophets; give us ears to hear and mouths to speak. You have appointed some to sing of your goodness in the streets; make us bold to celebrate you. You have called some to be still, listen, and act; give us steadiness of mind and singularity of purpose. Amen.
- Shane Claiborne
We have exchanged love of family and home for cyberfriends and living in constant motion that robs the soul from memories—and perhaps from that still, small voice that longs to be heard.
- Billy Graham
I don't have time for a job that doesn't leave me time to be quiet or still or to pray.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.And, behold, I come quickly.
- Anonymous
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves.
- Anonymous
Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!The river glideth at his own sweet will!Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;And all that mighty heart is lying still!
- William Wordsworth
God's call to faithfulness can sometimes be a summons to be still and wait. There is a creative waiting as well as a creative acting.
- Daniel Migliore