“...one's movement towards the divine reaches its end only when one reaches God... 'The true Sabbaths are the rest laid up for the people of God' (Heb. 4:9). God can 'bear these sabbaths' (cf. Is. 1:13) because they are true. And the one 'in which the world is crucified' (Gal. 6:14) reaches these sabbaths of rest because he has clearly turned away from worldly things and returned to his own spiritual resting place. The one who arrives there will no longer be moved from his place, for there he finds quiet and tranquility.” PeopleWorldEndsChristianSpiritualMovementDivineBearsQuietMovedOrthodoxTranquilityWorldlySabbathCfsGalsWorldly Things Author:Maximus the Confessor
“To be reverent is not just to be quiet. It involves an awareness of what is taking place. It involves a divine desire to learn and to be receptive to the promptings of the Spirit. It involves a striving to seek added light and knowledge.” LightSpiritDesireAwarenessDivineQuietStriveReceptiveDesire To LearnLight And Knowledge Author:L. Lionel Kendrick
“There are three things that earthly riches can never do; they can never satisfy divine justice, they can never pacify divine wrath, nor can they every quiet a guilty conscience. And till these things are done man is undone.” MenDoneThreeJusticeDivineQuietConscienceRichesGuiltyWrathThree ThingsUndoneGuilty ConscienceDivine Justice Book:The select works of ... Thomas Brooks Source: The select works of ... Thomas Brooks
“Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.” ArtStillsLightFormChristStageDivineShapesQuietIdealsRemainsSupremeSerenityGreat ArtTransitoryDivine Light Author:Franz Liszt
“George Smiley: [quoting an old letter from Bill Haydon about Jim Prideaux] He has that heavy quiet that commands. He's my other half. Between us we'd make one marvelous man. He asks nothing better than to be in my company or that of my wicked, divine friends, and I'm vastly tickled by the compliment. He's virgin, about eight foot tall, and built by the same firm that did Stonehenge” MenAsksHalfCompanyFeetDivineQuietBuiltLettersBillsHeavyEightCommandFirmWickedTallComplimentMarvelousVirginsOther HalfQuotingSmileyStonehengeOld Letters Author:John le Carre
“She would be quiet at first. Then she would say a word about something small, something she had noticed, and then another word, and another, each one flung out like a little piece of sand, one from this direction, another form behind, more and more, until his looks, his character, his soul would have eroded away . . . I was afraid that some unseen speck of truth would fly into my eye, blur what I was seeing and transform him from the divine man I thought he was into someone quite mundane, mortally wounded with tiresome habits and irritating imperfections.” MenFirstsLooksLittlesSoulCharacterWould BeEyeFormBehindsPiecesSeeingDivineHabitQuietSandImperfectionWoundedUnseenMundaneBlurIrritatingSpecksTiresome Author:Amy Tan