life causes

Be silent, O all flesh, before the Lord. -ZECH ii. 13

Be earth, will all her scenes, withdrawn;
Let noise and vanity be gone:
In secret silence of the mind
My heaven and there, my God, I find.
I WATTS

IT is only with the pious affection fo the will that we can be spiritually attentive to God. As long as the noisy restlessness of the thoughts goes on, the gentle and holy desires of the new nature are overpowered and inactive.
J.P. GREAVES

THERE is hardly ever a complete silence in our soul. God is whispering to us well nigh incessantly. Whenever the sounds of the world die out in the soul, or sink low, then we hear these whisperings of God. He is always whispering to us, only we don not always hear because of the noise, hurry and distraction which life causes as it rushes on.
F.W. FABER

THE prayer of faith is a sincere, sweet, and quiet view of divine eternal truth. The soul rests quiet, perceiving and loving God; sweetly rejecting all the imaginations that present themselves, calming the mind in the Divine presence, and fixing it only on God.
M. DE MOLINOS