We are to enter into God’s chamber, and hide there, and be still. Then God will call us “those who live quietly in the land.” Have this stamp upon you.

Be quiet outside—you will then be quiet inside. Be quiet in spirit. Beware of soul activities. The dross must be burned out to have the mountain vision. We must get back to God only, and cease to see the human instruments. Hide deeper in God. He must be real—more and more real! Hide with Christ in God at the Throne; be at the Spring of things!

“In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength” (Isaiah 30:15 KJV). Set yourself to move everything through God, not man. Go direct to Him. Every step with God “in quietness and in confidence” gives you absolute victory over everything!

Keep in step with God.

Get quiet, beloved soul; tell out thy sorrow and complaint to God. Let not the greatest pressure of business divert thee from God. When men rage about thee, go and tell Jesus. Hide thee in His secret place when storms are high.

Get into thy closet, shut thy door, and quiet thyself as a weaned babe. But if thy voice is quiet to man, let it never cease to speak loudly and mightily for man.

We need to be quiet to get the ear of God!

’Mid all the traffic of the ways, Turmoils without, within, Make in my heart a quiet place, And come and dwell therein!

A little shrine of quietness, All sacred to Thyself, Where Thou shalt all my soul possess, And I may find myself!

JOHN OXENHAM

Pascal said: “One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts.”