Quotes About Silence

I have heard no word of my own language; I am rendered dumb.

There's nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won't ring from room service your mother won't be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, you're dead.

Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

Start seeing everything as God, But keep it a secret

God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.

Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.

Such words as 'God' and 'Death' and 'Suffering' and 'Eternity' are best forgotten. We have to become as simple and as wordless as the growing corn or the falling rain. We must just be.

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Silence...leads us to make a gift of self rather than a selfishness that has been gift-wrapped ...Silence does not mean running away but rather recollecting ourselves in the open space of God.

Silence is God's language, and it's a very difficult language to learn.

Though there are times when it may seem like God is silent, he is never absent.

I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.

Don't misinterpret God's silence as rejection.

How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.

Have you ever noticed how quiet you get when you go in the woods? It's almost like you know that God's there.

When led of the Spirit, the child of God must be as ready to wait as to go, as prepared to be silent as to speak.

When you meditate, the silence of the senses illumines the presence of God within.

God is silent. Everything comes out of silence.

Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

The friend of silence comes close to God. In secret he converses with him and receives his light.

To be silent when we are impelled to utter words injurious to God or to our neighbour, is an act of virtue; but, to be silent in confessing our sins, is the ruin of the soul.

But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly with God.

We are no longer able to hear God - There are too many frequencies filling our ears.