Caroline Emelia Stephen famous quotes

Surely we may with reverence say that, in a true and deep sense, God Himself is the answer to prayer.
-- Caroline Emelia Stephen

#Prayer #Answers #May

True inward quietness is not that which may be produced by shutting out all outward causes of distraction -- a process which, when carried out too severely, may intensify the inward ferment of the mind, especially in the young. It is rather a state of stable equilibrium; it is not vacancy, but stability -- the steadfastness of a single purpose.
-- Caroline Emelia Stephen

#Mind #Inward #Vacancy

Nothing, I believe, can really teach us the nature and meaning of inspiration but personal experience of it. That we may all have such experience if we will but attend to the divine influences in our own hearts, is the cardinal doctrine of Quakerism.
-- Caroline Emelia Stephen

#Believe #Inspiration #Heart

Words may help and silence may help, but the one thing needful is that the heart should turn to its Maker as the needle turns to the pole. For this we must be still.
-- Caroline Emelia Stephen

#Heart #Silence #May

True inward quietness ... is not vacancy, but stability - the steadfastness of a single purpose.
-- Caroline Emelia Stephen

#Inner Peace #Inward #Vacancy

Prayer is the mighty engine that is to move the missionary work.

I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I now believe that whether or not there's a God, there is such a thing as sacredness. Life is sacred. The Sabbath can be a sacred day. Prayer can be a sacred ritual. There is something transcendent, beyond the everyday. It's possible that humans created this sacredness ourselves, but that doesn't take away from its power or importance.

I am always struggling in finding time to daily grow in my faith. If you are not in the Word or focusing on Christ, or into prayer, you can't help but slip at times.

Someone once asked me... whether I waited for inspiration. My answer was: "Every day!"

We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.

Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.

If the patient has been to more than four physicians, nutrition is probably the medical answer.

Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

Because I’ve had a taste and I’m not sharing. This isn’t just for fun. I may be slightly addicted.

Staying with him. Letting him touch you, hold you, GOD. It's eating me alive. You may be keeping Sawyer from hating me but you're only making me hate him