Quotes About Silence

I recognize the power of silence in an extroverted world but there is a time for silence and a time to speak up about things that matter that continue to be left unsaid.

If the voice was meant to be silent we wouldn't have ears for listening.

Knowledge is not the thing to boast or to brag! It's about how you can make influence on lives without uttering a single word.

The tongue never rests. It speaks even when we sleep. It speaks through the mind even when the mouth keeps shut

When you sit alone and think out your thoughts … then that is your loudest cry!

When silence become silent, it speaks silently but loudly

A lion's strength does not lie in its roar.

A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.

Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.

At the heart of silence is prayer. At the heart of prayer is faith. At the heart of faith is life. At the heart of life is service.

In prayer, more is accomplished by listening than by talking.

Prayer is like a secret garden made up of silence and rest and inwardness. But there are a thousand and one doors into this garden and we all have to find our own.

With God there is no need for long speeches.

The root of prayer is interior silence.

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

Prayer is the Word of God which comes to you when you are silent enough, still enough, expectant enough to receive it.

The secret of praying is praying in secret.

My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results.

God speaks in the silence of the heart, and we listen. And then we speak to God from the fullness of our heart, and God listens. And this listening and this speaking is what prayer is meant to be.

Pray inwardly, even if you do not enjoy it. It does good, though you feel nothing. Yes, even though you think you are doing nothing.

To pray is to listen, to move through my own chattering to God, to that place where I can be silent and listen to what God may have to say.

When a man has found the Lord, he no longer has to use words when he is praying, for the Spirit Himself will intercede for him with groans that cannot be uttered.

The lover of silence draws close to God. He talks to Him in secret and God enlightens him.

The seeker's silence is the loudest form of prayer.