Bill McCartney Quotes

Your serenity matters to heaven. God's presence encapsulates your life.

I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.

Drop Thy still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease; Take from our souls the strain and stress, And let our ordered lives confess The beauty of Thy peace.

The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

I'm at peace.

I wish everybody finds the serenity that good, strong faith brings.

I want to live quietly.

Movement is tranquility.

I'm ready to live in the present - not the past and not in the future - because in the present is where there's peace.

Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.

It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life? To learn the art of remaining motionless amid the agitation of the whirlwind, to learn to remain still and to be as transparent as this fixed light amid the frantic branches this may be a program for life.

Sometimes I perceive that there is a stillness and a wholeness in the world or in some portion or corner or fragment of the world or some little place in time where things just feel so right and huge and powerful and easy that I will have the perhaps blasphemous thought maybe there are layers of heaven.

Meditation means to be free from all phenomena and calmness means to be internally unperturbed. There will be calmness when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed.

There is so much noise in the world! May we learn to be silent in our hearts and before God.

Wherever you go in the midst of movement and activity, carry your stillness with you. Then the chaotic movement around you will never overshadow your access to the reservoir of creativity, the field of pure potentiality.

Don't allow yourself to be upset and disturbed. Hold your peace because without it you have no power.

Our spiritual life cannot be measured by success as the world measures it, but only by what God pours through us- and we cannot measure that at all

Joy draws its nourishment from quietness and from the unfathomable.

Surrender is a journey from the outer turmoil to the inner peace.

When I look at my goal, my goal is peace.

One day you'll have a quiet heart.

In the midst of all dwells the sun.

At the pit's bottom is no anger.

Inner peace is the key: if you have inner peace, the external problems do not affect your deep sense of peace and tranquility... Without this inner peace, no matter how comfortable your life is materially, you may still be worried, disturbed or unhappy because of circumstances.