Quotes about Solitude
Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.
— Oswald Chambers
Live as though only God and yourself were in this world, so that your heart may not be detained by anything human.
— John of the Cross
God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies.
— Viktor E. Frankl
Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.
— Johannes Tauler
If you aren't constantly astonished at God's grace in your solitude, there's no way it can happen in public.
— Timothy Keller
Bare heights of loneliness...a wilderness whose burning winds sweep over glowing sands, what are they to HIM? Even there He can refresh us, even there He can renew us.
— Amy Carmichael
It is in lonely solitude that God delivers His best thoughts, and the mind needs to be still and quiet to receive them.
— Charles Swindoll
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone.
— Thomas Jefferson
I feel strongly that the God we meet in solitude is always the God who calls us to community.
— Henri Nouwen
The speech of God is silence. His Word is solitude.
— Thomas Merton
The best thing must be to flee from all to the All.
— Teresa of Avila
Prayer is - keeping company with God.
— Philip Yancey