Quotes about Silence

If you really want to be a rebel get a job, cut your grass, read your bible, and shut up. Because no one is doing that.

He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue

Every day, God has something to say to you. Even when He seems to be quiet, God is still saying something.

I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God

Silence is God's first language.

If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

We will have to depend in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people

In all evils we must confess that God is the author and say: "Since You have done it, we must be silent and dumb," lest we murmur or blaspheme against Him. And He must be implored to remove the evil. For he who does not know who brings in the evil becomes impatient in vain and attempts to banish it. It is as if a spear were hurled from an unknown place, and the one struck is angry in vain.

The saints, however, are in silence and patience and in hope (spes), not in physical activity (res), like those people, for they are saved by the name of the Lord. This does not come about except in hope and patience and silence, whereas the ungodly seek to be saved in bustle and physical activity (res), indeed by the vanity of physical activity.

Do not argue at all with the devil and his temptations or accusations and arguments, nor, by the example of Christ, refute them. Just keep silent altogether; turn away and hold him in contempt. For no one conquers the devil by arguing with him, since he is incomparably more clever than all of us. But if you should not fight with the devil, much less should you do it with man. Rather you should put up with him, because he does not do the work himself, but the devil uses man as his tool.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.