The Sanctuary of Quietness


In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength.--Isa. 30: 15.

We think of a sanctuary as a place of refuge from the cares and worries of life, a place where we may escape from the noises and the harassing voices of the world, a place to which we may go for a season of worship, prayer, and meditation upon holy things. We may go to church and find such a sanctuary there. But a period of quietness rightly observed anywhere may become to us a sanctuary.

Do you feel weary, careworn, disheartened? Are you oppressed and burdened with anxiety? Are you troubled with thoughts that are heavy and dark? Are you disturbed and overwrought over some distressing situation? Has your brain become muddled and your heart faint from seeing and experiencing so much of the feverish straining and clashing conflicts of worldly life?

Spend awhile in the sanctuary of quietness.

There, as thousands of others have found you, you will find relief from those things that disturb and distress you. You will find refreshment and renewal for your tired brain and weary heart. You will find a new understanding that will help you to master conditions. You will experience a mental and spiritual regeneration that will restore to you the power to think hopefully, healthfully, triumphantly. Leave the world and its affairs outside, and come apart for a little while into this blessed sanctuary of quietness.

“Keep silence before Me” (Isa. 41: 1).

“Be still, and know that I am God” (Ps. 46: 10).

“Enter into thine inner chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to the Father who is in secret” (Matt. 6: 6).

“They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint” (Isa. 40: 31).

“Men ought always to pray, and not to faint” (Luke 18: 1).