. . . and she felt the words come from some iron place within her that hadn't existed an hour ago. She didn't speak loudly, but there was such a change in her voice. Coming from that iron place, it was heavy and true; it wasn't persuasive, or desperate, or antagonistic. It just was.
To speak of atrocious crimes in mild language is treason to virtue.
Most people are good people. But they're afraid to speak out, they're afraid for their safety and their jobs. And unfortunately that dictates a lot of their actions.
When I speak to people from Britain, that's when I feel like a fake, speaking with an American accent.
Christians have forgotten that the ministry of listening has been committed to them by Him who is Himself the great listener and whose work they should share. We should listen with the ears of God that we may speak the Word of God.
It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak.
Even if a man should chance to speak the most complete truth, yet he himself does not know it; all things are wrapped in appearances
First of all, let it be remembered that I speak as an ex-Communist and one who has not testified before Congressional Committees, nor written works on the Communist conspiracy.
We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.
God speaks in the silence of the heart, and we listen. And then we speak to God from the fullness of our heart, and God listens. And this listening and this speaking is what prayer is meant to be.
I was born under Communism. I know what it's like to live in a system where you can't speak, you have to whisper. Where the state is so pervasive and so intrusive.
I can't speak for the future. I have no crystal ball.
When we don't have the words chocolate can speak volumes.
To speak about notation as the only way that you can guarantee structure of course is already very suspect.
I saw Krishnamurti speak one time. And I thought, I'm not going to live here.
Embrace the truth. Speak the truth. Be the truth. When we welcome the truth, we live our lives like it's golden.
When it comes to judging individuals, I do not like remarks such as 'too good to be true. ' They speak as though one is rewarding the nature of evil. Yet, ironically, we still wonder where all the good people have gone.
All names of God remain hallowed because they have been used not only to speak of God but also to speak to him.
The heart communes best when it does not try to speak.
At present we can only reason of the divine justice from what we know of justice in man. When we are in other scenes, we may have truer and nobler ideas of it; but while we are in this life, we can only speak from the volume that is laid open before us.