Action Quote by Salvador Bernal

He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird to escape from his hand;…

— Anonymous

As always at these times when he felt really in need of God the front of his mind was serene, but the deeper part,…

— Stephen King

“Bodily agitation, then, is an enemy to the spirit. And by agitation I do not necessarily mean exercise or movement. There is all the…

— Thomas Merton

The presence of God calms the soul, and gives it quiet and repose.

— Francois Fenelon

Strong mental agitation and disturbance was no novelty to him, even before his late sufferings. It never is, to obstinate and sullen natures; for…

— Charles Dickens

“Anyone who wishes to check on his true spiritual condition may do so by noting what his voluntary thoughts have been over the last…

— A.W. Tozer

The man who has struggled bravely with the passions of the body, has fought ably against unclean spirits, and has expelled from his soul…

— Maximus the Confessor

“He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

That his prayer was nothing else but a sense of the presence of GOD, his soul being at that time insensible to everything but…

— Brother Lawrence

“In all outward aspects he remained patient and mild now, not caring even to speak against heretics; he knew that he was likely to…

— Ackroyd Peter

“In his life he'd passed through long periods of gratefulness and good cheer, but he'd scarcely even imagined this level of thorough contentment with…

— Chad Harbach

“He cared little for commonly experienced emotions, for everyday associations of ideas, now that the closing of his mind had grown more pronounced, and…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans