still small voice

1. One's conscience, as in I'd love to go but a still small voice tells me I really have to stay home and work. The term comes from the Bible (I Kings 19:12), where Elijah hears his own inner voice: “And after the earthquake a fire ... and after the fire a still small voice.”

Example Sentences

“A still small voice took over me,” she said.

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Mati, the employee at the center of the hushed and absorbing documentary “A Still Small Voice,” reports for duty at an ordinary-looking office.

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“This body is just a shell of who I am,” Peach said in a still, small voice.

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Her success in life has come from God’s grace and from listening to what she called the “still, small voice” inside while filtering out the noise of the world.

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“Every right move I’ve made has come from listening deeply and following that still, small voice.”

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