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.
Sometimes I spend all day trying to count the leaves on a single tree. . . Of course I have to give up, but by then I'm half crazy with the wonder of it--the abundance of the leaves, the quietness of the branches, the hopelessness of my effort. And I am in that delicious and important place, roaring with laughter, full of earth-praise.
I think of the quietness of Julian's voice as he said I love you, the steadiness of his rib cage rising and falling against my back, as we sleep. I love you, Julian. But the words don't come.
The true lasting quietness. . . comes from a complete consecration to the Divine
Bless us Lord, this Christmas, with quietness of mind; Teach us to be patient and always to be kind.
Cultivating quietness is a missing discipline today. . . the quietness needed to nurture an inner life hid in Christ.
It's not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be - and so people here can coexist and live together.
Green calm below, blue quietness above.
The best tests of my Christian growth occur in the mainstream of life, not in the quietness of my study
A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.
Contentment. . . has an internal quietness of heart that gladly submits to God in all circumstances.
True inward quietness is not that which may be produced by shutting out all outward causes of distraction -- a process which, when carried out too severely, may intensify the inward ferment of the mind, especially in the young. It is rather a state of stable equilibrium; it is not vacancy, but stability -- the steadfastness of a single purpose.
First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got the better of his creed. A bad life and a good belief are disagreeable and troublesome neighbors, and where they separate, depend upon it, 'Tis for no other cause but quietness sake.
There's a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness
Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.
Unless you really understand the water, and understand the reason for being on it, and understand the love of sailing and the feeling of quietness and solitude, you don't really belong on a boat anyway. I think Hemingway said one time that the sea is the last free place on earth.
All that is important comes in quietness and waiting.
I do oppose My patience to his fury, and am arm'd To suffer, with a quietness of spirit, The very tyranny and rage of his.
Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever.
God gives quietness at last.
