Silence Quotes - Page 45

If you don’t learn how to cry, you cannot be a good Christian. When they posed this question to us – why children suffer, why this or that tragedy occurs in life – our response must be either silence or a word that is born of our tears. Be courageous, don’t be afraid to cry.

Silence is the genius of fools and one of the virtues of the wise.

To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets.

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.

Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.

In the moral calculus of currently prevailing state capitalism, profits and bonuses in the next quarter greatly outweigh concern for the welfare of one’s grandchildren, and since these are institutional maladies, they will not be easy to overcome. While much remains uncertain, we can assure ourselves, with fair confidence, that future generations will not forgive us our silence and apathy.

I always begin my prayer in silence, for it is in the silence of the heart that God speaks. God is the friend of silence-we need to listen to God because it's not what we say but what He says to us and through us that matters.

It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself.

I came to love silence, because it's so rare, and it's now my favorite aural condition.

Listen to the silence. Listen to your life. Be present, not just think about what's going on next week, next month.

There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses.

After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.

Children are not only sensitive to silence, but also to a voice which calls them ... Out of that silence.

Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, because whoever is silent dissents.

They thought that the bullets would silence us, but they failed.

It has often occurred to me that a seeker after truth has to be silent.

My greatest weapon is mute prayer.

We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all we succeed in doing is destroying all hope of tranquility. ... . You have to learn to immerse yourself in the silences between.

I have decided to leave Clea’s last letter un-answered. I no longer wish to coerce anyone, to make promises, to think of life in terms of compacts, resolutions, covenants. It will be up to Clea to interpret my silence according to her own needs and desires, to come to me if she has need or not, as the case may be. Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?

Silence is a source of great strenght.

The "I" in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable.

He had somehow, with all his modesty, the rare faculty of controlling his superiors as well as his subordinates. He outfaced Stanton, captivated the President, and even compelled acquiescence or silence from that dread source of paralyzing power, the Congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War.

So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought, Yet gives not o'er though desperate of success.

There are some long silences in Scandinavian and some Japanese films, when the audience knows action is taking place, but the audience hears no action.

Secret guilt is by silence revealed.