In Quaker worship, the “God in silence” is not a distant, impersonal deity, but the living presence of Christ Jesus—the Spirit of God—made known through the gathered stillness of meeting. (Quaker.org)
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“There is a progression in the spiritual life.
It is not wise to tackle the Mt. Everest of the soul
before having had some experience with lesser peaks.
So I would recommend beginning with
a daily period of from five to ten minutes.
This time is for learning to “center down,”
or what the contemplatives of the Middle Ages called “re-collection.”
It is a time to become still, to enter into the recreating silence,
to allow the fragmentation of our minds to become centered.”
Richard J. Foster
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The Lord is in his holy temple;
let all the earth be silent before him.
Habakkuk 2:20 NIV
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I know of no other way, in these deeper depths,
of trusting in the name of the Lord, and staying upon God,
than sinking into silence and nothingness before Him…
So long as the enemy can keep us reasoning he can buffet us to and fro;
but into the true solemn silence of the soul before God he cannot follow us.
John Bellows, 1831-1902