2,656 Quotes About Silence

When God is silence, be still.

We lay there within the lonely silence of all the things we didn’t say.

She wanted them to live in union with God and with one another. Silence was at the root of that union, for God was 'the friend of silence':

We need silence to be alone with God, to speak to him, to listen to him, to ponder his words deep in our hearts. We need to be alone with God in silence to be renewed and transformed. Silence gives us a new outlook on life.

Of necessity, theirs must often be an interior silence, surrounded as they were for much of the time by noise and restlessness. To make possible true interior silence she told her Sister they would practice

Silence is about rediscovering, through pausing, am i correct? It is silence that I am able to hear God best in silence.

Indifference is silent, so is realization, but the difference between the two is that the silence of indifference sustains a life of complacency, whereas the silence of realization pours in your veins such courage that you no longer are able to maintain indifference of any sort - wherever and whenever you see injustice and discrimination you leap in revolution - you leap with a strong conviction of equality and humaneness - you leap in an act of revolution.

Insanity triumphed because sane people were silent.

Among the strangest and most serious vices in human life, we must mention silence.She kills her victims every day, it is a fatal disease.