Caroline Emelia Stephen quotes
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“Surely we may with reverence say that, in a true and deep sense, God Himself is the answer to prayer.”
-- Caroline Emelia StephenSource : Caroline Emelia Stephen (1890). “Quaker Strongholds”
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“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 StephenSource : Caroline Emelia Stephen (1908). “Light Arising: Thoughts on the Central Radiance”
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“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 StephenSource : Caroline Emelia Stephen (1890). “Quaker Strongholds”
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“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 StephenSource : Caroline Emelia Stephen (1908). “Light Arising: Thoughts on the Central Radiance”
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“True inward quietness ... is not vacancy, but stability - the steadfastness of a single purpose.”
-- Caroline Emelia StephenSource : Caroline Emelia Stephen (1908). “Light Arising: Thoughts on the Central Radiance”
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“Prayer is the mighty engine that is to move the missionary work.”
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“Someone once asked me... whether I waited for inspiration. My answer was: "Every day!"”
Source : Aaron Copland (2011). “What to Listen For in Music”, p.27, Penguin
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“We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.”
Source : "SQ : Connecting with Our Spiritual Intelligence". Book by Danah Zohar and Ian Marshall, 2000.
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“Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.”
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“If the patient has been to more than four physicians, nutrition is probably the medical answer.”
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Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p. 14, 1957.