[Jesus] said to them,
“Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.”
Mark 6:31b NIV
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God has spoken very boldly about his desire to be a presence in our lives.
If I want to heal the ache and loneliness in my own life,
one of the things I need to do is get away, alone with God. . . .
In the silence God will speak to you most powerfully.
Too often his words to us get muffled, lost,
or covered by the crowd of many noises both inside and outside of us.
We must have a quiet heart in order to hear God’s distinctive message to us.
Tim Hansel
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I am convinced, no, more like convicted,
that to claim a few still spaces in which beauty is found and silence kept,
is to open the door to God.
Sarah Clarkson
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But we do not fear silence,
for often God speaks loudest in the quiet of our hearts.
Diana Gabaldon