Quotes about Silence
To be alone by being part of the universe-fitting in completely to an environment of woods and silence and peace. Everything you do becomes a unity and a prayer. Unity within and without.
— Thomas Merton
He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.
— William Faulkner
Quiet, deep breath after any prayer is another form of Amen.
— Anne Lamott
The fewer the words the better the prayer.
— Martin Luther
You say "But He has not answered." He has He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet but presently you will.
— Oswald Chambers
God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses we are in a very elementary condition of grace.
— Oswald Chambers
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.
— John Tillotson
Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we're invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.
— Anne Lamott
Somewhere we know that without silence, words lose their meaning.
— Henri Nouwen
As Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
— William Ury
But hushed be every thought that springsFrom out the bitterness of things.
— William Wordsworth
This City now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
— William Wordsworth