Silence Quotes - Page 35

I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

Listen for silence in noisy places; feel at peace in the midst of disturbance; awaken joy when there is no reason.

There is something about silence and being in the middle of nowhere that is really very attractive.

Guilt must not be allowed to fester in the silence of the soul, poisoning it from within. It needs to be confessed. Through confession we bring it into the light, we place it within Christ's purifying love. In confession, the Lord washes our soiled feet over and over again and prepares us for table fellowship with him.

The two heart-grey puddles: two mouthsfull of silence.

When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.

There is nothing so much like God in all the universe as silence.

Your mind is the greatest home entertainment center ever created. It requires contemplative silence to really discover who you truly are. You have immense talents, resources and abilities that are untapped.

Peace is Letting Go--Returning to the Silence that cannot enter the realm of words because it is too pure to be contained in words. This is why the tree, the stone, the river, and the mountain are quiet.

It is as though he listened and such listening as his enfolds us in silence in which at last we begin to hear what we are meant to be.

I learnt silence from the talkative

In my quiet, I was working something out.

You can be sure you are a man of God if you suffer injustice gladly and in silence.

Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rude / And flew to the silence of sweet solitude.

Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.

Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.

So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.

Human beings have capitalized on the silence of animals, just as certain human beings have historically imposed silence on certain other human beings by denying slaves the right to literacy, denying women the right to own property, and denying both the right to vote.

The long silences need to be loved, perhaps more than the words which arrive to describe them in time.

Hearing is a form of touch. You feel it through your body, and sometimes it almost hits your face.

Experience yourself in silence.

You must keep your composure. Take charge of the huddle. Be a leader. And silence, the crowd.

The world is full of noise. Might we not set ourselves to learn silence, stillness solitude?

He who believes in God and the Last Day should honour his guest; he who believes in God and the Last Day should not annoy his neighbours; and he who believes in God and the Last Day should say what is good or keep silent.

Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep.