Quotes about Stillness

The impassive soul disturbs neither itself nor others.

How do we wait? The Bible says very clearly that we are to be still.

Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure.

The meaning of awe is to realize that life takes place under wide horizons, horizons that range beyond the span of an individual life or even the life of a nation, a generation, or an era. Awe enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple; to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.

The central commandment is in relation to the person. But religion today has lost sight of the person. Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment. It has fallen victim to the belief that the real is only that which is capable of being registered by fact-finding surveys.

Why are we so afraid when we think about death? Death is only dreadful for those who live in dread and fear of it. Death is not wild and terrible, if only we can be still and hold fast to God's Word. Death is not bitter, if we have not become bitter ourselves. Death is grace, the greatest gift of grace that God gives to people who believe in Him.

Before the heart unlocks itself for the world, God wants to open it for himself; before the ear takes in the countless voices of the day, it should hear in the early hours the voice of the Creator and Redeemer. God prepared the stillness of the first morning for himself. It should remain his.

Only when the clock stops does time come to life

Meditation is one of the ways in which the spiritual man keeps himself awake.

The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.

The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.

My own rule is to let everything alone.