Though there are times when it may seem like God is silent, he is never absent.
TOP FIVE WAYS PEOPLE CAN SURPRISE YOU 5. Just when you think they’ve given up on you, they prove that they never will. 4. They find a way to speak up after staying silent for so long. 3. They defend you when you least expect it. 2. By showing you how life can get better now. 1. By helping you find a place to belong.
A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. C. S. LEWIS, Out of the Silent Planet True pleasures are paid for in advance; false pleasures afterwards, with heavy and compound interest.
Every positive thought is a silent prayer which will change your life.
True art means if it helps you to become silent, still, joyous; if it gives you a celebration, if it makes you dance—whether anybody participates with you or not is irrelevant. If it becomes a bridge between you and God, that is true art. If it becomes a meditation, that is true art. If you become absorbed in it, so utterly absorbed that the ego disappears, that is true art.
Concerning great things one should either be silent or speak loftily.
History is silent about revivals that did not begin with prayer.
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers.
Like a dart the present glances, Silent stands the past sublime.
Oh, Herbert," she said pleadingly to her silent husband, "you must make him marry her! Call for the parson immediately! Look at them. . . they are. . . ," she sputtered, "canoodling!
But the day is spent; And stars are kindling in the firmament, To us how silent--though like ours, perchance, Busy and full of life and circumstance.
I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
What do you do there, moon, in the sky? Tell me what you do, silent moon. When evening comes you rise and go contemplating wastelands; then you set.
When the lives and the rights of children are at stake, there must be no silent witnesses.
Then from the neighboring thicket the mocking-bird, wildest of singers, Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the water, Shook from his little throat such floods of delirious music, That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen.
During war, the laws are silent.
Silent films were, I think, more different than we know to sound films. We think of it as simply that we added dialogue and in actual fact I think it was an entirely different art form.
Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it.
A silent dark. . . as black as a moonless lake, as a ravine's wings, darkness there and nothing more, merely this and nothing more.