Quotes About Silence

Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence.

I will be silent and will hear what God will say in me...If God wishes to speak to me, let him enter. I will not go out.

May we try to listen and be silent in order to make space for the beauty of God.

Prayer is speaking to God - but sometimes He uses our times of prayerful silence to speak to us in return.

Sometimes when we're waiting for God to speak, He's waiting for us to listen.

The most generous choices, especially the persevering, are the fruit of profound and prolonged union with God in prayerful silence.

My God, I pray better to you by breathing and walking than by talking, just as in choir I sing best when I am thinking about something else, or better still, praying.

Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.

In ... silence we find a new energy and a real unity. God's energy becomes our, allowing us to perform things well.

Friends, do not be afraid of silence or stillness. Listen to God. Adore Him in the Eucharist.

Prayer is a silent surrendering of everything to God.

Meditation is waiting on God.

Coming before God in quietness & waiting upon Him in silence often can accomplish more than days of feverish activity.

If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts.

The speech of God is silence. His Word is solitude.

Note to self: If you can't hear God when you pray, shut up.

When I think of God's Kingdom, I am compelled to be silent because of its immensity, because God's Kingdom is none other than God himself with all His riches.

Listen in silence because if your heart is full of other things you cannot hear the voice of God

Words engage our minds, but in the silence we hear the Presence of God.

There is a divine depth in silence. We meet God alone.

Well might the ancients make silence a god; for it is the element of all godhood, infinitude, or transcendental greatness,--at once the source and the ocean wherein all such begins and ends.

Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, "Oh, for God's sake, shut up."

God just told me to shut up!

I asked God if it was a sin and He didn't say anything.