“I pray that the Lord may work in us the steadfast desire to do good on the quiet, by stealth, when no one looks on, when not a single disciple is near.”
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
—Franz Kafka
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
—Franz Kafka
Quiet people have the loudest minds.
—Stephen Hawking
The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss – an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. – is sure to be noticed.
—Søren Kierkegaard
All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
—Blaise Pascal
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
—Henry David Thoreau
There is quiet rest and sweet refreshment in Christ for those that are wearied with persecutions.
—Jonathan Edwards
O how quiet, as well as holy, would our lives be, had we learned that single lesson,—to be careful for nothing, but to do our duty, and leave all consequences to God!
—John Wesley
To suffer sin to lodge quietly in the heart, to let thy heart habitually and without control wander from God, is a sad, a dangerous symptom indeed.
—John Flavel
Be patient. Wait on the Lord for whatever He appoints, wait quietly, wait trustingly.
Elisabeth Elliot
All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone.
—Blaise Pascal
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
—Henry David Thoreau
You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.
—Ernest Hemingway
Put things in perspective: watch a quiet sunrise.
—Peter R. Rose
There is in Christ quiet rest and sweet refreshment for God’s people, when wearied with the buffetings of Satan.
—Jonathan Edwards
There are quiet rest and sweet refreshment in Christ for God’s people that are weary.
—Jonathan Edwards
Were not men so wise, the world, perhaps, would be more quiet, when the end of wisdom is to keep it in quietness.
—John Owen
There is so much sweetness in our peace with God that it must so quiet the spirit of that man in whom it is that whatsoever is without shall never be able to make any great disturbance in his spirit, so great and excellent is the sweetness of that peace.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
There is so much sweetness in our peace with God that it must so quiet the spirit of that man in whom it is that whatsoever is without shall never be able to make any great disturbance in his spirit, so great and excellent is the sweetness of that peace.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
The evening was quiet and bright. A long strip of sea blackened on the horizon, and on its shore the rocks burned in the reddish light, and on one of the rocks the white walls of the second battery and the entire fortification glistened. I admired my seven-year prison.
—Taras Shevchenko