Silence Quotes
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Kerosene," he said, because the silence had lengthened, "is nothing but perfume to me.
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Silence is the adornment of the wise, and for the foolish the only dignity possible.
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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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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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Sighs and silences and avoided conversations are just as important as the things you do talk about.
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I say this because the Left has taken what passes for their principles as an absolute religion. They don't think anymore. They just react. When they have somebody like Barack Obama whom they put into office, they believed in the religious sense and, of course, that is a large part of the reason for their silence on these issues.
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Silence, beautiful voice.
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We need silence to be able to touch silence .
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Freedom is the silence of the law.
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..."Are you okay?" he says, still looking at me, and I feel my smile slip, fade, and the silence that falls over us then is so total I can’t hear anything, not the rush-hiss of my heart pounding in my chest, not the sounds all around us; insects, wind, and the distant clatter of others’ lives in houses built close but not too close because when we look out our windows we all like to pretend that everything we see is ours. But Ryan is not mine.
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Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.
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The first requirement for prayer is silence. People of prayer are people of silence.
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We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
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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.
