Quotes About Quietness

El mundo esta lleno de mujeres como Beth, timidas y tranquilas, que aguardan sentadas en un rincon hasta que alguien las necesita, que se entregan a los demas con tanta alegria que nadie ve su sacrificio hasta que el pequeño grillo del hogar cesa de chirriar y la dulce soledad desaparece para dejar tras de si silencio y oscuridad.

And the Eldest Magician said, 'How wise are little children who see and are silent!

For some reason he thinks of Diane in her unbecoming red ski jacket and decides that her life is her life, there is not much use worrying about it. And he thinks of his wife, pretending to laugh at the television. Her quietness.

I want to resume the life of a shy person.

Cultivating quietness is a missing discipline today...the quietness needed to nurture an inner life hid in Christ.

Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.

Nothing ever happens to me," She reflected.

The quiet is fretful, unnatural.

not that anything very much ever happened.

It's a lonely place. Sometimes it's the loneliest place in the world.

I am a retiring, silent, unsociable, and discontent person.

I will probably die in silence, surrounded by silence

He is that guy who seems so alone and a guy who's made his way in the world just fine. It's just that his world is a different kind of world; it's not that rushing, heavily populated world of demands and connections so many of us have. His is mostly a quiet world and his relationships seemed to be the same. The way he seemed to like it.

To trust God is to trust His timing. To trust God is to trust His way. God loves me too much to answer my prayers at any other time than the right time and in any other way than the right way. In the quietness of all that doesn't feel right, this truth does.

You have to be silent, but ready

Ta je planina bila naš susjed iza zida - težak, zatvoren i bezglasan susjed, vremešna i melankoli?na planina s navikama starog neženje koji uvijek održava potpunu tišinu, tako pristojna planina, zimska, koja nikad ne pomi?e namještaj, ne prima goste, ne bu?i i ne smeta, no kroz naše zajedni?ke zidove uvijek su prodirali, kao lak i uporan miris plijesni, hladno?a, mrak, tišina i vlaga turobnoga susjeda.

Wrath takes hold of you. The trumpet sounds. The graves quake. And your heart Raised From the quietness of ashes Into the torment of flames Quakes.

Almighty God, in this quiet hour I seek communion with thee. From the fret and fever of the day's business, from the world's discordant noises, from the praise and blame of men, from the confused thoughts and vain imaginations of my own heart, I would now turn aside and seek the quietness of thy presence. All day long have I toiled and striven; but now in the stillness of heart and the clear light of thine eternity, I would ponder the pattern my life is weaving.

L'aube n'est pas silencieuse, mais elle est sous-peuplée.

I do not like January very much. It is too stationary. Not enough happens. I like the evidences of life, and in January there are too few of them.

The best tests of my Christian growth occur in the mainstream of life, not in the quietness of my study

I just want a quiet life. I think that's what everybody says when they get older.

All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.

silence is solitude.