Quotes About Silence

How can you expect God to speak in that gentle and inward voice which melts the soul, when you are making so much noise with your rapid reflections? Be silent and God will speak again.

Prayer is sitting in the silence until it silences us, choosing gratitude until we are grateful, and praising God until we ourselves are an act of praise.

A season of silence is the best preparation for speech with God.

Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.

God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.

I love to observe Christmas in quietude, humility, benevolence, charity, letting good will towards man, eloquent silence, prayer, and praise express my conception of Truth's appearing.

Prayer is the laying aside of thoughts.

I talk to God but the sky is empty.

The airy sky has taken its place leaning against the wall. It is like a prayer to what is empty And what is empty turns its face to us and whispers: 'I am not empty, I am open'.

God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour.

Waiting prayer, or waiting on the Lord, is the silent surrendering of the soul to God. It is wordless worship. It is seeking God not from without but from within. It is to seek God in your heart.

True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.

My greatest weapon is mute prayer.

The silence of prayer is the silence of listening.

Souls of prayer are souls of great silence

Prayer unfolds in the stillness of the soul.

Prayer is like a great love. When you start dating the silence can be awkward, but as you grow to know each other you can sit in silence for hours and just being with each other is a great comfort.

I prefer a kind of sweet, deep, rich prayer in which a person goes in and says, Take me down deep into the reason you gave me life. Take me down deep. It silences the chaos in me.

Lead us in a few words of silent prayer.

True contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward prayer.

They tell me, Lord, that when I seem To be in speech with you. Since but one voice is heard, it

The more we can give in our silent prayer, the more we can give in our active life.

The Lord speaks to us through the Scriptures and in our prayer. Let us learn to keep silence before him, as we meditate upon the Gospel.

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