PMC'S QUOTABLE QUOTES On Meditation, Silence, peace |
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| William Blake (1757 - 1827) | |
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nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me".
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| Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) | |
In the attitude of
silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive
and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness |
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| Charles deGualle | |
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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power. |
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| John F. Kennedy | |
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
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| John F. Kennedy | |
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"Those Who Make Peaceful Revolution Impossible, Will Make Violent Revolution Inevitable."
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| Mother Teresa | |
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"The fruit of silence is PRAYER, the fruit of prayer is FAITH, the fruit of faith is LOVE, the fruit of love is SERVICE, the fruit of service is PEACE".
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| Mother Teresa | |
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
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| Mother Teresa | |
"Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at his disposition, and listening to his voice in the depths of our hearts."
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| Mother Teresa | |
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"We need to find God, and he cannot be
found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence."
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| Loretta Winchester | |
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THE MYSTERY AND SACREDNESS OF GOD IS FOUND WITHIN
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| Loretta Winchester | |
It is through silence that we reach our greatest source of connection with God.
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| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | |
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The holiest of all holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; the secret anniversaries of the heart.
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| Anonymous | |
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THE TEMPLE OF OUR PUREST THOUGHTS IS SILENCE.
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| Norman Vincent Peale | |
Silence fertilizes the deep place where personality grows. A life with a peaceful center can weather all storms.
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| Thomas Carlyle | |
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Silence is the element
in which great things fashion themselves together.
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| Benjamin Disraeli | |
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Silence is the mother
of Truth ---Benjamin Disraeli
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| William Penn | |
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
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Let
us be silent that we may hear the whispers of god.
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| St. John of the Cross | |
He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird to escape from his hand; he can hardly catch it again.
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| General George Washington | |
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My first desire is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the face of the earth.
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| General Douglas MacArthur | |
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...We have had our last chance. If we do not now If we do not now devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door. The problem is basically theological and involves a spiritual recrudescence and improvement of human character.
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| Peace Pilgrim | |
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We who work for peace must not falter. We must continue to pray for peace and to act for peace in whatever way we can. We must continue to speak for peace and to live the way of peace; to inspire others, we must continue to think of peace and to know that peace is possible.
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| Joel Barker | |
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Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
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| Peter Minard | |
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"Not merely an absence of noise, Real
silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order
to find peace and order in the inner sanctuary".
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| Elisabeth Kubler-Ross | |
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"Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that
everything in this life has a purpose".
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| Tito Colliander | |
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"When
you pray, you yourself must be silent. You do not pray to have your own
earthbound desires fulfilled, but you pray: Thy will be done. It is not
fitting to wish to use God as an errand boy. You yourself must be silent;
let the prayer speak."
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| Father Thomas Keating | |
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"The
Holy Bible - Matthew 6:6 says:
“Close the door, and pray to your Father in secret.” “If you want to pray,” that is, if you want
to enter into a relationship with the infinite Source of all that is,
“enter your inner room”
(through silence, meditation and/or centering ) - the deepest spiritual
level of your being --“close the door, and pray to your Father in secret.”
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| Marianne Williamson | |
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"The
highest level of prayer is not a prayer for anything. It is a deep and
profound silence, in which we allow ourselves to be still and know Him.
In that silence, we are changed. We are calmed. We are illumined."
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