Quotes related to Lamentations 3:26
Silence is the mother of truth.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.
— Booker T. Washington
First, silence makes us pilgrims. Secondly, silence guards the fire within. Thirdly, silence teaches us to speak.
— Henri Nouwen
Silence remains indispensable today as it was in the past. The Word of God is born out of the eternal silence of God, and it is to this Word out of silence that we want to be witnesses.
— Henri Nouwen
Without reading the word, silence becomes stale, and without silence, the word loses its re-creative power. The word leads to silence and silence to the word. The word is born in silence, and silence is the deepest response to the word.
— Henri Nouwen
As ministers our greatest temptation is toward too many words. They weaken our faith and make us lukewarm. But silence is a sacred discipline, a guard of the Holy Spirit.
— Henri Nouwen
I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.
— Ernest Hemingway
Complaint always comes back in an echo from the ends of the world; but silence strengthens us.
— GK Chesterton
Everything that's created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness. All creativity requires some stillness.
— Wayne Dyer
Whose silence are you?
— Thomas Merton
My life is a listening, His is a speaking. My salvation is to hear and respond. For this, my life must be silent. Hence, my silence is my salvation.
— Thomas Merton
John the Baptist's training was in God's University of Silence. God takes all His great men there.
— Leonard Ravenhill