Silence Quotes - Page 57

As your silence grows; your friendliness, your love grows; your life becomes a moment-to-moment dance, a joy, a celebration.

Mind cannot think without duality. Duality is the way of thinking. In silence, all dualities disappear.

Silence is the space where man wakes up.

Joy is not dependent on circumstances; it is your own. It is not a titillation produced by things; it is a state of peace, of silence-a meditative state. It is spiritual.

Only through the Eucharist is it possible to live the heroic virtues of Christianity: charity, to the point of forgiving one's enemies; love for those who make us suffer; chastity in every age and situation of life; patience in suffering and when one is shocked by the silence of God in the tragedies of history or of one's own personal existence. You must always be Eucharistic souls in order to be authentic Christians

Euripides was wont to say, silence was an answer to a wise man; but we seem to have greater occasion for it in our dealing with fools and unreasonable persons; for men of breeding and sense will be satisfied with reason and fair words.

Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life.

Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.

Human beings can't bear silence.It would mean that they would bear themselves.

Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

..though silence must add intensity to your intimate moments, it must also shrivel your soul to lie beside someone who doesn't talk to you.

Perhaps it is our fear, that in the silence between stories, in the moment of falling, the fear that we will never find the one story which will save us, and so we lunge for another, and we feel safe again, if only for as long as we are telling it.

If you believe the noises of the world, rather than the silences of your soul, you will be lost.

Silence came before creation, and the heavens were spread without a word

Listen in silence because if your heart is full of other things you cannot hear the voice of God

Why are we embarassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?

Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge.

Silence is worse when you know it won't be broken.

It is easier to silence scientific dissent by utilizing the politics of personal destruction, than to actually debate them on the merits of their arguments. That should tell you something about the global warming debate...there is none right now....it's either you believe, or you are to be discredited.

Silence is often advantageous.

Silence is a giver; it gives some things to you! Noise is a taker; it takes some things from you! Seek for the silence!

A great silence has descended on me for the last six months. I am as silent as an Arab in the desert, as dry, thirsty, and full of wonder and rumours which do not materialize into camels or travellers at all, but just vanish into the silent spaces from where they came. I expect this is a good thing though it is extremely irritating - the brink of a voice and never a voice.

Something unpronounceable followed by a long silence points out my life is becoming a landscape.

It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch-antirevolutionaries.

A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies.