Quotes About Silence

In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the will.

A picture is like a prayer.

Prayer should be soundless words coming forth from the center of your heart filled with love.

I know that some believe that voluntary prayer in schools should be restricted to a moment of silence. We already have the right to remain silent - we can take our Fifth Amendment.

When our whole life is one faith, hope, love, prayer and silence, a consecrated life always bound up in the Eucharist, then the 'urge' towards God springs.

Prayer is - listening for the still small voice of God. Listening with the "ear of our hearts."

To be alone by being part of the universe-fitting in completely to an environment of woods and silence and peace. Everything you do becomes a unity and a prayer. Unity within and without.

He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.

God has special confidences for each soul. Indeed, it would seem as though the deepest truths came only in moments of profound devotional silence and contemplation.

Silence was the first prayer I learned to trust.

Quiet, deep breath after any prayer is another form of Amen.

You say "But He has not answered." He has He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet but presently you will.

God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses we are in a very elementary condition of grace.

It is hard to wait and press and pray and hear no voice but stay till God answers.

Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.

A real relationship is like a river; the deeper it gets the less noise it makes.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.

There can be nothing more baffling in a human relationship than silence, the dark loom of doubts and questions unexpressed.

Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we're invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.

There are so many things that demand to be said. Where did you go? Do you ever think about me? You've ruined me. Are you okay? But of course, I can't say any of that.

I did learn one great lesson from a past relationship, and that was to never talk about relationships in print again because I'd rather live my private life than read about it.

Somewhere we know that without silence, words lose their meaning.