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Quotes about Stability

the Communist universe: it gravitates towards stability and harmony and peace and order on the poles of an opportunism that is completely irresponsible and erratic. Its only law is, it will do whatever seems to be profitable to itself at the moment.
- Thomas Merton
They seem too technical, and I need not literature but the living God. Sitivit anima mea. The strong living God. I burn with the desire for His peace, His stability, His silence, the power and wisdom of His direct action, liberation from my own heaviness. I carry myself around like a ton weight.
- Thomas Merton
If you destroy the foundations of anything, the structure will collapse. If you want to destroy any building, you are guaranteed early success if you destroy the foundations.
- Ken Ham
The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.
- CS Lewis
Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly
- George Eliot
Mothers, on the other hand, are trees with firm roots.
- Isabel Allende
Let nothing disturb thee, Let nothing affright thee, All things are passing, God changeth never.
- Teresa of Avila
After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.... Economy is always a guarantee of peace.
- Calvin Coolidge
Then suddenly he reached out and took her hand. "Why did you do that?" she asked softly. He looked up at the snowflakes, let them fall, melt on his face, turning it shiny. "Because when it's slippery out, sometimes we just need someone to hang on to until we find our footing.
- Susan May Warren
Remember those who led you, who spoke the word of God to you; and considering the result of their conduct, imitate their faith. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today, yes and forever. Do not be carried away by varied and strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, through which those who were thus occupied were not benefited. (Heb. 13:7—9)
- Charles Swindoll
If you depend on being emotionally inspired or newly motivated, you will need a new fix almost every day.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
She knew it was there, would always be there, but she needed to confirm its presence. Like the keeper of the lighthouse and the prisoner, she regarded it as a mooring, a checkpoint, some stable visual object that assured her that the world was still there; that this was life and not a dream. That she was alive somewhere, inside, which she acknowledged to be true only because a thing she knew intimately was out there, outside herself.
- Toni Morrison