Quotes About Stillness And God

#1. Now he seeks truth in silence. He seeks God in the same, although he has come to believe that truth and God are the same. Truth, stillness, and God.

Don Winslow

#2. In the stillness of life, we find our higher self. Be still and God is with you. Be still, and you are never alone.

Donald L. Hicks

#3. Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is.

Amy Carmichael

#4. Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.

Meister Eckhart

#5. Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

Aldous Huxley

#6. They were creating a program on contemplative prayer called Be Still. They asked me to be a part of this project that was designed to help Americans see the importance of spending time before God in stillness. I knew immediately that God wanted me to be a part of the project.

Priscilla Shirer

#7. And when we come to search for God, Let us first be robed in night, Put on the mind of morning To feel the rush of light Spread slowly inside The color and stillness Of a found world.

John O'Donohue

#8. When you can quiet the fluctuations of your mind and drift into stillness & silence, you can finally hear the whispers of your heart ... the whispers of god.

Davidji

#9. There was a silence on the tors that belonged to another age; an age that is past and vanished as though it had never been, an age when man did not exist, but pagan footsteps trod upon the hills. And there was a stillness in the air, and a stranger, older peace, that was not the peace of God.

Daphne Du Maurier

#10. O mighty and once living instrument of formative nature. Incapable of availing thyself of thy vast strength thou hast to abandon a life of stillness and to obey the law which God and time gave to procreative nature.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#11. On a cold winter's eve, my dear friend Jamila and I journeyed in the stillness of meditation to find God. We found God, two of them. More likely, they found us.

Jamila Hammad

#12. In all times of emotional disturbance or indecision, we can pause, ask for quiet, and in the stillness simply say: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference. Thy will, not mine, be done.

Alcoholics Anonymous

#13. Gamache enjoyed going to churches for their music and the beauty of the language and the stillness. But he felt closer to God in his Volvo.

Louise Penny

#14. It is vey difficult to draw away from the face of God - it is like a warm fire, it is like dear sleep, it is like a great anthem, yet there is a stillness all about it, a stillness full of lights.

Lord Dunsany

#15. God of wilderness, God of wildness, lead me to the quiet places of my soul. In stillness, in openness, may I find my strength.

Jan L. Richardson

#16. You can find God if you will only seek - by obeying divine laws, by loving people, by relinquishing self-will, attachments, negative thoughts and feelings. And when you find God it will be in stillness. You will find God within.

Peace Pilgrim

#17. The stillness of God is perfect. Nothing has to be added to it. Nothing can be taken away.

Frederick Lenz

#18. It is in that inner peace and stillness that things begin to happen, and it was in that peace and stillness that I began to hear God's voice.

Eileen Caddy

#19. For a moment, they all stood staring at each other. Then Holly shattered the stillness by throwing herself at Angela. "God, Angie!" she exclaimed, arms locked around her neck. "What Happened?

Sarah Rees Brennan

#20. The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.

Jim Elliot

#21. You probably can't get much closer to God than serving a congregation 24/7. At the same time, there's a different kind of closeness in this present life I have in which I have much more freedom to come and go and to engage some of the silence and stillness and solitude that I was missing before.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#22. After meditation, it is a good idea to bow and offer your meditation to god, to that stillness and perfection that is existence. Feel that you are giving your meditation away.

Frederick Lenz

#23. Emptiness is only a disguise for an intimacy of God's, that God's silence, the eerie stillness, is filled by the Word without words, by Him who is above all names, by Him who is all in all. And his silence is telling us that He is here.

Karl Rahner

#24. If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.

A.R. Ammons

#25. Ann, I know it's hard to understand, but in that wonderful stillness, life becomes a dream and God becomes real.

Joseph Rector

#26. Listen to the murmur of water and you'll hear Mother Nature.
Listen to the stillness beneath, and there you'll find God.

Donald L. Hicks

#27. They who reach down into the depths of life where, in the stillness, the voice of God is heard, have the stabilizing power which carries them poised and serene through the hurricane of difficulties.

Spencer W. Kimball

#28. Whenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God's speaking from the whirlwind, nature's old song, and dance ...

Annie Dillard

#29. Sometimes God remains silent to see if we'll remain faithful. The stillness exposed our intentions.

Alisa Hope Wagner

#30. For all of us who listen, in the stillness of our hearts, God enlightens us and offers to lead the way.

Betty Eadie

#31. Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river.

Eckhart Tolle

#32. Listen to the long stillness:
New life is stirring
New dreams are on the wing
New hopes are being readied:
Humankind is fashioning a new heart
Humankind is forging a new mind
God is at work.
This is the season of Promise

Howard Thurman

#33. In the stillness I find my heart growing hot while I seek the person I have already found. God is so much more than I know.

Eric Samuel Timm

#34. To get at the core of God at his greatest, one must first get to the core of himself at his least, for no one can know God who has not first known himself. This core is a simple stillness, which is unmoved itself but by whose immobility all things are moved and all receive life.

Meister Eckhart

#35. Friends, do not be afraid of silence or stillness. Listen to God. Adore Him in the Eucharist.

Pope Benedict XVI

#36. We spend a great deal of time telling God what we think should be done, and not enough time waiting in the stillness for God to tell us what to do.

Peace Pilgrim

#37. In our stillness, we acknowledge God's greatness and we are at peace in our life. Stillness saturates us in the Presence of God.

E'yen A. Gardner

#38. Stillness is the language God speaks, and everything else is a bad translation.

Eckhart Tolle