There is another kind of silence to be cultivated, besides that of the tongue as regards others.  I mean silence as regards one’s self—restraining the imagination, not permitting it to dwell overmuch on what we have heard or said, not indulging in daydreaming, whether of the past or future.  Be sure that you have made no small progress in the spiritual life, when you can control your imagination, so as to fix it on the duty and occupation actually existing, to the exclusion of the crowd of thoughts which are perpetually sweeping across the mind.  No doubt, you cannot prevent those thoughts from arising, but you can prevent yourself from dwelling on them; you can put them aside, you can check the self-complacency, or irritation, or earthly belongings which feed them, and by the practice of such control of your thoughts you will attain that spirit of inward silence which draws the soul into a close fellowship with God.

Jean N. Grou

“Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation.  The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Matthew 26:41
The New International Version

The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the Unabridged Dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing factory.

Edwin Conklin

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