The world is quieter now. It is never quiet, but it can get quieter. What strange creatures we are, to find silence peaceful, when permanent silence is the thing we most dread. Nighttime is not that. Nighttime still rustles, still creaks and whispers and trembles in its throat. It is not darkness we fear, but our own helplessness within it. How merciful to have been granted the other senses.
Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian's armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles and quakes.
In the fury of the moment I can see the Master's hand In every leaf that trembles, in every grain of sand.
My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just
You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.
Hell trembles at a heaven-directed eye.
The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And scatters on the air.
When lovers of life get ready to dance, the earth shakes and the sky trembles.
And the dancing has begun now, And the Dancings whirl round gaily In the waltz's giddy mazes, And the ground beneath them trembles.
Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.
My hand trembles, my heart does not.
Sometimes a word is found so right it trembles at the slightest explanation.
Sometimes the Earth trembles; sometimes you can feel it breathe.
Repentance can become a very, very deep phenomenon in you if you understand the responsibility. Then even a small thing, if it becomes a repentance-- not just verbal, not just on the surface; if it goes deep to the roots, if you repent from the roots; if your whole being shakes and trembles and cries, and tears come out; not only out of your eyes but out of every cell of your body, then repentance can become a transfiguration.
The devil smiles when we are up to our ears in work, but he trembles when we pray.
High finance trembles in its boots whenever there is some political complication.
When innocence trembles, it condemns the judge.
Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
The devil smiles when we make plans. He laughs when we get too busy. But he trembles when we pray-especially when we pray together.