Quotes About Silence

The voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric.

God's poet is silence! His song is unspoken, And yet so profound, so loud, and so far, It fills you, it thrills you with measures unbroken, And as soft, and as fair, and as far as a star.

If you are lucky and reverent, and hush for a moment the doubts in your head, sometimes God will whisper in your ear.

With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb!

God gives quietness at last.

Deepest communion with God is beyond words, on the other side of silence.

Many of us want to know why we don't "hear" God when we pray. Few of us shut up long enough to really listen.

If you are hungry to hear the voice of God, you will hear. To hear, you have to cut out all other things.

All I ever wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing and then made me mute.

Don't try to steer the boat. Don't open shop for yourself. Listen. Keep silent. You are not God's mouthpiece. Try to be an ear, And if you do speak, ask for explanations.

Oh, I don't talk about God.

Anyone who knows God cannot describe Him. Anyone who can describe God does not know Him.

God is the word that speaks itself.

Seek first God's Kingdom, that is, become like the lilies and the birds, become perfectly silent - then shall the rest be added unto you.

Oh! how seldom the soul is silent, in order that God may speak.

Respectable society believed in God in order to avoid having to speak about him.

O God, my God, the night has values that the day never dreamed of.

If you do not see any good in these persons, then say nothing, but if you do see some, speak about it to honor God in them because all good proceeds from Him.

Rest in the Lord; wait patiently for Him. In Hebrew, "Be silent in God, and let Him mould thee." Keep still, and He will mould thee to the right shape.

If God had wanted to be a big secret, He would not have created babbling brooks and whispering pines.

God is not only all-knowing but all-not-telling.

Keep silence, be mute. If you have not yet become the tongue of GOD, be an ear!

We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God's Word and our holy faith.

Only after all the noise has spent itself do we begin to hear in the silence of our heart, the still, small, mighty voice of God.