Quotes About Silence

I think the whole world should try not talking for a day.

I love playing, helping the team, and not talking with the press.

And I liked that whole idea that energy comes from not disseminating your ideas and talking about them.

The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

I've never seen anybody win the game in the media. But at the same time, I understand what it could do for you, if you wanted to be someone who talks a lot.

One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out.

When Kobe talks, I shut up and stay out of his way.

I'm a Brit, so I come from a country where in the run-up to a general election, no one talks about abortion.

I am a person who never talks about my problems with anyone. I don't discuss them with my dad because he gets hyper. So I choose not to.

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.

I never have tantrums. If anything makes me mad, I'm silent. If I'm not talking, leave me alone.

To listen to others quiets and disciplines the mind to listen to God.

Silence is one of the deepest disciplines of the Spirit simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justification. One of the fruits of silence is the freedom to let God be our justifier. We don't need to straighten others out.

One reason we can hardly bear to remain silent is that it makes us feel so helpless. We are so accustomed to relying upon words to manage and control others. If we are silent, who will take control? God will take control, but we will never let him take control until we trust him. Silence is intimately related to trust. The

Thomas à Kempis writes, "It is easier to be silent altogether than to speak with moderation."4

As Richard Foster explains, "Though silence sometimes involves the absence of speech, it always involves the act of listening. Simply to refrain from talking, without a heart listening to God, is not silence."1

In the quiet of those brief hours, listen to the thunder of God's silence.

it is the trees that capture my attention the most, and they lead me into complete silence. It's the patience of the quiet, laden with snow. The trees give me a glimpse into the cosmic patience of God. There among the trees I behold the Lord, the Creator of the trees.

If we hope to move beyond the superficialities of our culture, including our religious culture, we must be willing to go down into the recreating silences, into the inner world of contemplation.

We are silent after hearing the Word because the Word is still speaking and dwelling within us. We are silent at the beginning of the day because God should have the first word, and we are silent before going to sleep because the last word also belongs to God." —Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together 6

Silence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justification. One

One of the fruits of silence is the freedom to let God be our justifier. We don't need to straighten others out.

Bonhoeffer writes, "Real silence, real stillness, really holding one's tongue comes only as the sober consequence of spiritual stillness."6