Quotes about Silence

When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter.

No voice, no low, no howl is heard; the chief sound of life here is a hiss.

Underneath all the texts, all the sacred psalms and canticles, these watery varieties of sounds and silences, terrifying, mysterious, whirling and sometimes gestating and gentle must somehow be felt in the pulse, ebb, and flow of the music that sings in me. My new song must float like a feather on the breath of God.

If we have not silence, God is not heard in our music. If we have no rest God, does not bless our work.

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

Turn your car into a monastery.

Never miss a chance to shut up.

Not all prayer is in words, because not all conversation is in words.

We think we want peace and silence and freedom and leisure, but deep down we know that this would be unendurable to us.

We must admit that God owes us nothing. Before we charge God with not caring, we must thank Him for those times when His care is very evident. We are ever surrounded by undeserved blessings. Even in His silence, He blesses us.

Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.

And while from inside we would hear coughs and stirrings, there was never a rustle in the listeners out the door.