-Professor "Rabbi" John Duncan, Professor at New College, Edinburgh, Scotland, when addressing departing students (circa 1860)
The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.
-Blaise Pascal, French mathmetician,1670
Grace will not baptize us while we sit at home, slighting the means that God has appointed.
-Fr. John Henry Newman (when a Church of England priest!)
It is from understanding that power comes...for nothing can live well except in a manner that is suited to the way the sacred Power of the World lives and moves.
-Black Elk Speaks, p.208
"Three things that please God most are-Saint Ita of Killeedy
true faith in God with a pure heart,a simple life with a grateful spirit,and generosity inspired by charity.
The three things that most displease God are
a mouth that hates people,
a heart harboring resentments,
and confidence in wealth."
"A life without a lonely place - that is, a quiet center - easily becomes destructive."
-Henry Nouwen
"If I were to act wisely,...I should not be glad because of any special thing or be greatly distressed by anything at all, for all will be well; for the fullness of joy is to contemplate God in everything."
-Lady Julian of Norwich (Showings, The Thirty-Fifth Chapter)"In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions upon the next seven generations." -From the Great Law of the Haudenosaunee.
"Do not have too many practices; the soul, to grow, needs quiet." Baron von Hugel, Letters to a Niece, p. 32."The condition of life sought for by human beings through the ages is attained in the quietly transforming friendship of Jesus." Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy
