Quotes about Pause
Sabbath observance invites us to stop. It invites us to rest. It asks us to notice that while we rest, the world continues without our help. It invites us to delight in the world's beauty and abundance.
- Wendell Berry
To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses.
- Charles Stanley
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
- Anne Lamott
The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none
- Holly Hunter
But there is nothing to prevent a layman from taking just one Psalm a day, for instance in his night prayers, and reciting it thoughtfully, pausing to meditate on the lines which have the deepest meaning for him.
- Thomas Merton
For a long while she only looked at him ... as if she didn't want to interrupt the beautiful moment with words.
- Karen Kingsbury
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
- Samuel Johnson
Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.
- Barbara Kingsolver
In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.
- Euripides
If we cannot come together to pause, to respect our dead and the heroic lives of meaning they led, then ours is truly a civilization lost.
- Mark McKinnon
She learned to catch a moment in her hand before it flew away and hold it tightly while she had the chance.
- Beth Moore
For many people, life is so difficult and serious that they simply don't pause to discover the inner strength that comes through the supernatural.
- Billy Graham