Silence Quotes
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After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find that the only answer, the only reality, is silence.
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A moment of silence is not inherently religious.
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Silence fertilizes the deep place where personality grows. A life with a peaceful center can weather all storms.
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If you search the scientific literature on evolution, and if you focus your search on the question of how molecular machines - the basis of life - developed, you find an eerie and complete silence. The complexity of life's foundation has paralyzed science's attempt to account for it; molecular machines raise an as-yet-impenetrable barrier to Darwinism's universal reach.
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Silence is the adornment of the wise, and for the foolish the only dignity possible.
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That smell—cigarette—it always made me think of him. He smoked his cigarette. I drove. I didn’t mind the silence and the desert and the cloudless sky. What did words matter to a desert?
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If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.
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Your very silence shows you agree.
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Out there on the plain there is silence, and where there is silence I have discovered there.
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We cannot silence the voices that we do not like hearing. We can, however, do everything in our power to make certain that other voices are heard.
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The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing — or one person — at a time.
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Silence is the most powerful state.
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Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.
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There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano with old dust upon its keys, or from anything that has answered to the need of a man, for pleasure or for work. This kind of silence can speak. Its voice may be melancholy, but it is not always so; for the chair may have been left by a laughing child or the last notes of the piano may have been raucous and gay. Whatever the mood or the circumstance, the essence of its quality may linger in the silence that follows. It is a soundless echo.
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Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.
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In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.
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Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.
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When you believe God is who he says he is, when you hang onto him and his Word in faith, his truth sets you free.6 The truth you store up in silence comes back to you in the storm, and it lifts you away as on a life raft from the fears and disappointments that would otherwise pull you under. When you abide in his Word, he abides in you.
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Silence, beautiful voice.
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We need silence to be able to touch silence .
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But for me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God's creation embraces me.
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ELECTED Silence, sing to me And beat upon my whorlèd ear, Pipe me to pastures still and be The music that I care to hear.
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We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well as personally; to be alone with Him — not with our books, thoughts, and memories but completely stripped of everything — to dwell lovingly in His presence, silent, empty, expectant, and motionless. We cannot find God in noise or agitation.
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To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes.
