Quotes About Tranquility

Prayer that runs its course till the last day of life needs a strong and tranquil soul.

The airy sky has taken its place leaning against the wall. It is like a prayer to what is empty And what is empty turns its face to us and whispers: 'I am not empty, I am open'.

This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!

You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs.

We must be still before God.

Where there is no peace, prayers are not heard.

All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.

The stillness in art characterizes prayer, and the eye of the storm.

Souls of prayer are souls of great silence

Prayer is speaking to God. Meditation is listening to God. Trust tranquility.

Blessed is the mind which, during prayer, is insensible to all things.

If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.

There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . . . it quiets a man down like saying his prayers.

It will never be altogether well with us till we convert the universe into a prayer room.

Meditation is a huge part of my life. And prayer.

A fly rod extends a fly fisher's being as surely as do imagination, empathy or prayer.

A real relationship is like a river; the deeper it gets the less noise it makes.

My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their company.

Imperturbability means coolness and presence of mind under all circumstances, calmness amid storm, clearness of judgment in moments of grave peril, immobility, impassiveness, or, to use an old and expressive word, phlegm.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

Peace I leave you. My peace I give you.

Divinely bent to meditation; And in no worldly suits would he be mov'd, To draw him from his holy exercise.

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.

The cankers of a calm world and a long peace.