Quotes related to Psalm 62:1
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
— Albert Einstein
In solitude, at last, we're able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined—by relationship: the I-thou relationship, in relation to a Presence that demands nothing of us but presence itself. Not performance but presence
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Only when we rest in God can we find the safety, the spaciousness, and the scary freedom to be who we are, all that we are, more than we are, and less than we are.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Contemplation is a spiritual practice that has the potential to heal, and connect us to the source of our being.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. But if you look at Christ, you'll be at rest.
— Rick Warren
God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.
— Mother Teresa
The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled with the Love of God. Its solitude can be turned into prayer.
— Elisabeth Elliot
I must exchange whispers with God before shouts with the world.
— Lysa TerKeurst
Prayer unfolds in the stillness of the soul.
— Philip Yancey
We shall never find happiness by looking at our prayers, our doings, or our feelings; it is what Jesus is, not what we are, that gives rest to the soul.
— Charles Spurgeon
Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson