Quotes about Stillness
I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.
- Henry David Thoreau
To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
- Oscar Wilde
Archer reddened to the temples, but dared not move or speak: it was as if her words had been some rare butterfly that the least motion might drive off on startled wings, but that might gather a flock about it if it were left undisturbed
- Edith Wharton
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
- Aldous Huxley
The opposite of contemplation is not action, it is reaction.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Old men ought to be explorers Here and there does not matter We must be still and still moving Into another intensity For another union, a deeper communion —T. S. ELIOT, "EAST COKER
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing. —T.S. ELIOT, "East Coker" from the Four Quartets
- Fr. Richard Rohr
This is another day, O Lord... If I am to stand up, help me to stand bravely. If I am to sit still, help me to sit quietly. If I am to lie low, help me to do it patiently. And if I am to do nothing, let me do it gallantly.
- Kathleen Norris
If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it always: it is difficult to get into communion with God in the midst of the hurly-burly of the day.
- Oswald Chambers
Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
- Teresa of Avila
The stillness of prayer is the most essential condition for fruitful action. Before all else, the disciple kneels down.
- Gianna Beretta Molla
God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour.
- Charles Stanley