Quotes About Stillness

Power rests in tranquillity.

The one power a man has that cannot be stripped from him is the power to do nothing.

Meditation is a sort of prayer and prayer is meditation. The highest meditation is to think of nothing. If you can remain one moment without thought, great power will come.

Prayer is the Word of God which comes to you when you are silent enough, still enough, expectant enough to receive it.

When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.

In every storm there is a 'Peace! Be still' Christ will speak where prayer's call invites Him.

How can you expect God to speak in that gentle and inward voice which melts the soul, when you are making so much noise with your rapid reflections? Be silent and God will speak again.

Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.

Prayer is the laying aside of thoughts.

The stillness of prayer is the most essential condition for fruitful action. Before all else, the disciple kneels down.

In the rush and noise of life, as you have intervals, step home within yourselves and be still. Wait upon God, and feel His good presence; this will carry you evenly through your day's business.

Hurry is the death of Prayer.

God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour.

We must be still before God.

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.

Prayer unfolds in the stillness of the soul.

If your life is rushing in many directions at once, you are incapable of the kind of deep, unhurried prayer that is vital to the Christian walk.

Prayer is - listening for the still small voice of God. Listening with the "ear of our hearts."

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.

When you don't know what to do, get still. The answer will come.

If spacious stillness is missing, the relationship will be dominated by the mind and can easily be taken over by problems and conflict. If stillness is there, it can contain anything.

True listening is another way of bringing stillness into the relationship. When you truly listen to someone, the dimension of stillness arises and becomes an essential part of the relationship.

He urges himself to strengthen his virtues now, without any further delay. This is what he means when he commands himself to limit himself to the present. Worrying about the future and regretting the past badly interfere with focussing on being virtuous in the present. He writes that if he can cut free of distracting imprassions that cling to his mind and can free his mind from the future and the past, then he can make himself, as Empedocles says, "a sphere rejoicing in its perfect stillness.