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Quotes about Silence

Don't waste words with people who deserve your silence, Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is nothing at all.
- Mandy Hale
I thought I would be understood without words
- Vincent Van Gogh
When all sounds cease, God's voice is heard under the stars.
- Vincent Van Gogh
O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by.
- Phillips Brooks
0 little town of Bethlehem How still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by.
- Phillips Brooks
Never miss an opportunity to shut up.
- Mark Twain
Think first. Talk less. Start today.
- Charles Swindoll
It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.
- Booker T. Washington
The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.
- Philip Yancey
The quieter the mind," said Meister Eckhart, "the more powerful, the worthier, the deeper, the more telling and more perfect the prayer is.
- Philip Yancey
One of the gifts that comes with age is an appreciation for some of the more simple, more commonplace things that seem mundane earlier in one's life. As the years pass, the hidden treasure to be found in humble and unpretentious virtues becomes more accentuated—things like rest, silence, and the joy of an ordinary day. The attraction toward activity and achievement lessens, becoming slowly, steadily, and appropriately replaced by an interest in more internal matters.
- Priscilla Shirer
nine out of ten people I have had to forgive sincerely do not feel they have done anything wrong. It is up to me to forgive them from my heart — and then keep quiet about it.
- RT Kendall