Quotes About Stillness

Sonya Voronova leaned back in the kitchen chair and stared blankly at the computer screen.

But the greatest triumph of a person's faith is to "be still, and know that [He is] God" (Ps. 46:10).

I do not believe we have even begun to understand the wonderful power there is in being still. We are in such a hurry, always doing, that we are in danger of not allowing God the opportunity to work. You may be sure that God will never say to us, "Stand still," "Sit still," or "Be still," unless He is going to do something. This is our problem regarding the Christian life: we want to do something to be Christians, instead of allowing Him to work in us.

Drop Your still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease: Take from our souls the strain and stress; And let our ordered lives confess The beauty of Your peace. Breathe through the pulses of desire Your coolness and Your balm; Let sense be mum, its beats expire: Speak through the earthquake, wind and fire, O still small voice of calm!

the greatest triumph of faith is to be still and know that He is God.

No news at 430 a.m. is good.

The pair of them were again in the eye of a storm of misery - their world was a storm of misery and they were caught in its center, in the deceptive stillness that had allowed them to forget, once upon a time, that all around them was a stinging whirl of hatred that would catch them - it was everywhere and everything and they'd been fools to think they could leave their small safe place and not be caught in that vortex like every other living creature in Eretz.

One beat followed the sound, a single beat of stillness, and then chaos leapt in.

Above and behind it, slopes scraped north, where the teeth of the Atlas Mountains bit off the sky. Before and below, the earth rolled down a slope of scree and scrub toward the distant Sahara. It was a bleak vista, so still that is seemed the twitch of a scorpion's tail for miles around should draw the eye.

Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation.

How still, How strangely still The water is today, It is not good For water To be so still that way. ~ "Sea Calm

Wait a second," Clary said. "I never understand why people say that," Luke said, to no one in particular. "I wasn't going anywhere.

The silence of a convent at night is the silence of the grave. Too far removed from the busy world without for external sounds to penetrate the thick walls, whilst within no slamming door, nor wandering foot, nor sacrilegious voice breaks in upon the stillness, the slightest noise strikes upon the ear with a fearful distinctness. ("The Monk's Story")

Boredom is that agitated space between relaxation and action; dialed down, it can become a pleasant kind of inertia or a meditative stillness, where it feels good to sit quietly with your own thoughts; cranked up a notch, it can produce creative release. But that middle place is the boredom itself – restlessness with no movement. A dull and desperate longing for something else. From Catastrophic Happiness.

And in this one perfect but probably fleeting moment . . . nothing

Human beings get no practice at staying. We have no special limbs for it. Once we commit to being still, darling, it's all we ever do.

And I have asked to beWhere no storms come,Where the green swell is in the havens dumb,And out of the swing of the sea.

And I have asked to be Where no storms come

I have asked to be Where no storms come

Estaba muerta, ése era ahora su estado natural y pacífico. Como si nunca hubiera sido otra cosa: de repente pétrea, muerta y neutra, una cosa.

Be still, for God remains the same. Even when you are not strong. He still reigns supreme. He will give you strength.

The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still.

No response no reaction

At times, productivity means doing nothing at all.