Quotes About Quiet Introspection

I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God

— Soren Kierkegaard

Time and again I hear how important the darker environment is to those at our vintage-faith worship gathering. Attenders feel they can freely pray in a corner by themselves without feeling that everyone is staring at them.

— Dan Kimball

The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

One secret to wisdom:think more, speak less.If you let your words be few, your troubles will not be many.

— Matshona Dhliwayo

For a spiritual person, it is commendable to rarely venture out, avoid being seen, and have no desire to see others.

— Thomas a Kempis

Accept what comes from silence. Make the best you can of it. Of the little words that come out of the silence, like prayers prayed back to the one who prays, make a poem that does not disturb the silence from which it came.

— Wendell Berry

I feel better! I feel! I feel!" until he quit that too and said quietly, looking at the familiar wall, the familiar twin door through which he was about to pass, with tragic and passive clairvoyance: "Something is going to happen to me.

— William Faulkner

do all you can to stop the ungodly chatter.

— Neil Anderson

We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult where everything speaks except our mouths. The realities of the soul are none the less real for being invisible and impalpable.

— Victor Hugo

I love to live alone in my own little cottage, where I can spend much time in prayer, etc.

— David Brainerd

Silence is the discipline that helps us to go beyond the entertainment quality of our lives.

— Henri Nouwen

Solitude is the furnace of transformation.

— Henri Nouwen