Quotes about Silence
The Simple Path Silence is Prayer Prayer is Faith Faith is Love Love is Service The Fruit of Service is Peace
- Mother Teresa
I know that some believe that voluntary prayer in schools should be restricted to a moment of silence. We already have the right to remain silent - we can take our Fifth Amendment.
- Ronald Reagan
When our whole life is one faith, hope, love, prayer and silence, a consecrated life always bound up in the Eucharist, then the 'urge' towards God springs.
- Pope John Paul II
Prayer and sacrifice can touch souls better than words.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
To be alone by being part of the universe-fitting in completely to an environment of woods and silence and peace. Everything you do becomes a unity and a prayer. Unity within and without.
- Thomas Merton
He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.
- William Faulkner
Quiet, deep breath after any prayer is another form of Amen.
- Anne Lamott
The fewer the words the better the prayer.
- Martin Luther
You say "But He has not answered." He has He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet but presently you will.
- Oswald Chambers
God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses we are in a very elementary condition of grace.
- Oswald Chambers
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.
- John Tillotson
Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we're invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.
- Anne Lamott