There's a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness
Growing older, I love only quietness: who need be concerned with the things of this world? Looking back, what better plan than this: returning to the grove.
Contentment. . . has an internal quietness of heart that gladly submits to God in all circumstances.
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.
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.
Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever.
Yet not with all of me am I in love. Too much of my own quietness is with me.
The true lasting quietness. . . comes from a complete consecration to the Divine
The best tests of my Christian growth occur in the mainstream of life, not in the quietness of my study
With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world.
Often times God wants us to sit before Him in quietness. He doesn't want us to do all the talking. As Is. 30:15 says "In quiet and confidence will be your strength. "
The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
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.
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.
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.
Bless us Lord, this Christmas, with quietness of mind; Teach us to be patient and always to be kind.
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.
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.
All that is important comes in quietness and waiting.
Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.