Quotes About Stillness

There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your heart.

Shades of a new morning standing still are worse than the shades of night. At least a person can understand the dark of night. It's not fickle like the day.

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

We'll talk about this another time. Hold still. Stop breathing. Your chest keeps moving." "Kind of hard not to breathe," muttered Cerúlia. And you were the one who wanted to know everything.

I remember weeping... at the silence, the stillness, the turning passages and cluttered walls. I supposed then that those things would be strange to me for ever, I felt their strangeness making me strange--make me a thing of points and hooks, a burr, a splinter in the gullet of the house.

No-one speaks. No-one moves (…). We glide, softly, in silence, into our dark and separate hells

For a time, all was still: for the yards there, like the grounds, are desperately bleak, all dirt and gravel—there is not so much as a blade of grass to be shivered by the breezes, or a worm or a beetle for a bird to swoop for.

As you trust Me more and more, you are able to receive Me and My blessings abundantly. Be still, and know that I am God.

I MEET YOU in the stillness of your soul. It is there that I seek to commune with you.

Busca la quietud y pon atención a mi Presencia.

Even when your body is still, your mind tends to race—anticipating future problems and searching for solutions. You need to remember that all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden in Me. Remind yourself of this glorious truth frequently, whispering: "Jesus, You are my Treasure. In You I am complete.

WHEN YOU APPROACH ME in stillness and in trust, you are strengthened. You need a buffer zone of silence around you in order to focus on things that are unseen. Since I am invisible, you must not let your senses dominate your thinking. The curse of this age is overstimulation of the senses, which blocks out awareness of the unseen world.

be still, and know that I am God. However, this timeless truth is essential for the well-being of your soul. As dew refreshes grass and

Listen to Me above the clamor of voices trying to distract you.

can do My best handiwork when you sit in the stillness of My Presence, focusing your entire being on Me.

REST IN THE STILLNESS of My Presence while I prepare you for this day. Let the radiance of My Glory shine upon you as you wait on Me in confident trust. Be still, and know that I am God. There is both a passive and an active side to trusting Me. As you rest in My Presence, focusing on Me, I quietly build bonds of trust between us. When you respond to the circumstances of your life with affirmations of trust, you actively participate in this process.

I AM PREPARING YOU for what is on the road ahead, just around the bend. Take time to be still in My Presence so that I can strengthen you.

LET MY LOVE ENFOLD YOU in the radiance of My Glory. Sit still in the Light of My Presence, and receive My Peace. These quiet moments with Me transcend time, accomplishing far more than you can imagine.

I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

Doing nothing is respectable at tea.

The clue's always, always, buried deep in the boredom... Where do you feel most bored? Go there.

This is why she can't get up. As long as she stays in bed everything's on hold.

pictures of life grinding to a halt decorating walls movement in dead motion limbs askew mouths stretched wide in motionless scream. art as we see it – feeling it's another story. so does art imitate life or does life imitate A—R—T and where does it end – on cold walls before disinterested observers?

Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth! (Ps. 46:10)