Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, And know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, No coincidences, All events are blessings given to us to learn from.

He forced his mind clear of other thoughts and waited. Stillness, he had learned, did not come naturally. He practiced it. Sometimes, as he waited, he heard the Lord's voice coursing through his spirit almost audibly. Other times he heard nothing, but he felt filled up and satisfied and understood.

The absolute gut-level truth was that he had no desire for God to interrupt him in this way.

Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but is also a disruption of thought.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude

The first six years I was kept totally alone. The last six years I had two people staying in the house. The first six years really trained me very well.

Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.

What's real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

Construction cumbers the ground with institutions made by busybodies. Destruction clears it and gives us breathing space and liberty.

We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.

Even when she was speaking, her soul was in prayer reposing on an unseen support.

there was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow.