Silence Quotes - Page 49

Let go, and move closer to existence in silence and peace, in meditation.

If we are to know the Lord, we must go to Him. Listen to Him in silence before the Tabernacle and approach Him in the Sacraments.

Silence 'is so lacking in this world which is often too noisy, which is not favorable to recollection and listening to the voice of God. In this time of preparation for Christmas, let us cultivate interior recollection so as to receive and keep Jesus in our lives.'

Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.

We made a film about the need for silence and withdrawal... and here we are at the epicentre of noise and excitement. Life is full of surprises.

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.

The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus driver.

If you're Australian, you feel it in your bones because you're at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in the sense that people always seem to be behaving strangely. People always seem to be behaving the wrong way, in a different way. You say things and there are silences.

It is the silence between sounds that create Rhythm.

Souls of prayer are souls of great silence

There is a Silence that is totally impersonal. It is not the fruit of anybody’s work. Peace is there, but there is no peacekeeper. This Peace is only known when the noise of the person is not present. In the absence of the 'person' there are no distractions. Only the ever-pure Awareness prevails. The Ultimate is nobody’s achievement at all.

There are times when the air that floats between mortals becomes, in its stillness and silence, as cruel as the edge of a scythe.

In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.

We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society.

If the devil were wise enough and would stand by in silence and let the gospel be preached, he would suffer less harm. For when there is no battle for the gospel it rusts and it finds no cause and no occasion to show its vigor and power. Therefore, nothing better can befall the gospel than that the world should fight it with force and cunning.

Our ability to offer empathy can allow us to stay vulnerable, defuse potential violence, help us hear the word 'no' without taking it as a rejection, revive lifeless conversation, and even hear the feelings and needs expressed through silence.

So many people choose silence after the immediate wake of a death out of fear of saying something out of turn or "bringing up bad memories" that bereaved people often feel forgotten.

Do your part to silence gossip - don't repeat it.

I am not a person to say the words out loud I think them strongly, or let them hunger from the page: know it from there, from my silence, from somewhere other than my tongue the quiet love the silent rage.

What I have done is worthy of nothing but silence and forgetfulness, but what God has done for me is worthy of everlasting and thankful memory.

The leader teaches more through being than through doing. The quality of one's silence conveys more than long speeches.

Be silent and safe-silence never betrays you.

Words express neither objects nor ourselves.

In silence you hear who you are becoming. You create yourself.

Keep braiding one's wavelengths back into oneself. That way they gain all the more external power and surround us with a huge affective and protective zone. Don't talk about this. Never talk about our secret methods. If we talk about them, they stop working.