Quotes about Silence

If you cannot be positive, then at least be quiet.

A voice is a human gift it should be cherished and used to utter as fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

Where words leave off, music begins.

It is better for some one to think you're a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

The deepest rivers make least din, the silent soule doth most abound in care.

The dark world seemed to lie stricken beneath the cold moon and the lidless stars.

Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.

Modern man is the Cosmic Orphan because he has killed God. And, by doing so, he has reduced himself to an accident of nature. When he asks, Why? his cry is lost in the silence of the recesses of space. When he dies, he dies without hope. Thus, in killing God, modern man has killed himself as well.

Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.

Though there are times when it may seem like God is silent, he is never absent.

Don't misinterpret God's silence as rejection.

When led of the Spirit, the child of God must be as ready to wait as to go, as prepared to be silent as to speak.