Recollectedness

It is the Holy Spirit--'rest for the weary, refreshment for the pining, solace in the midst of woe'--who imparts to the soul an imperturbable poise and a serene calm, the character of recollectedness, the soaring lightness of a full inner freedom. ❋ Fr Timothy Matkin (2005)

And the choice being open, the perturbation of the pulses and impulses of so many hearts quickened in thought and feeling in this day suggests to me a deliberate return to the recollectedness of the more tranquil language. ❋ Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell (1884)

Then Noel remembered himself, and in perfect recollectedness and self-possession he took her hands and kissed them, first one and then the other. ❋ Julia Magruder (1880)

With that strange recollectedness which human beings often have in the sharpest crises of their lives Noel suppressed the great sigh that had risen from his heart, and let the breath of it go forth from his parted lips, with careful pains to make no sound. ❋ Julia Magruder (1880)

And then in the midst of it Dallas came in, with his slovenly dress and horrible pipe, and Christine, with an awful look of recollectedness, came back to reality. ❋ Julia Magruder (1880)

She raised by degrees a leaden and inexpressive eye, to the objects that were about her, without having as yet spirit and recollectedness enough to distinguish them. ❋ William Godwin (1796)

Him distinctly, and felt His presence, -- that the recollectedness of my soul was deeper in the prayer of quiet, and more continuous, -- that the effects thereof were very different from what I had hitherto experienced, -- and that it was most certain. ❋ Of Avila Teresa (1548)

(the possession of correct views, decision and purity of thought and will, the ability of reproducing any sound uttered in the universe, vow of poverty, asceticism, attainment of meditative abstraction of self-control, religious recollectedness, honesty and virtue), and such doctrines. ❋ Lewis Hodus (N/A)