Quotes about Silence

There was a little hill behind the house. You climbed it, and there was the whole sky from horizon to horizon. A hundred and eighty degrees of brute inexplicable mystery. It was a good place for just sitting and saying nothing.

Meditation must follow hearing and precede prayer.

I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.

Into the void of silence, into the empty space of nothing, the joy of life is unfurled.

The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.

If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.

in crowded rooms they would form words with their lips for each other's eyes

I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.

My own rule is to let everything alone.

When we tell little white lies, we become progressively color-blind. It is better to remain silent than to mislead.

But the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake came a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper. 1 KINGS 19:11—12

and he began to speak, praising God. Luke 1:64 He didn't ask God why he'd been silenced, nor did he bemoan the many conversations he'd missed. Instead, Zechariah "shouted out praises to God