Quotes about Silence

Let us never be afraid to be still before God; we shall then carry that stillness into our work; and when we go to church on Sunday, or to the prayer-meeting on week-days, it will be with the one desire that nothing may stand betwixt us and God, and that we may never be so occupied with hearing and listening as to forget the presence of God.

Many have doubts; few voice them. The silent tended to quickly condemn those honest few who air misgivings dormant deep within us all.

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

Beyond this, to speak to the river and ask it why it runs, or to the sunshine and inquire of its cheer, or to command the raging storm be silent, this is a delight that saints and angels know which man, exiled from Eden, has lost. We are dumb and deaf in a world given to our dominion.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

For God sake hold your tongue, and let me love.

For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love

The great thing about the dead, they make space.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this.