The best answer to anger is silence.

So they went away in a boat by themselves to a solitary place.

There are vast areas of stubbornness and ignorance the Holy Spirit has to reveal in each of us, but it can only be done when Jesus gets us alone...Jesus cannot teach us anything until we quiet all our intellectual questions and get alone with Him.

He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.

First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, a modulated tone of voice, and a well-ordered manner of speech. He should be without anxiety as to his food and drink, and should eat in silence.

I had been used to chatter. To sit quietly did not come easy. However, with time and patience, I was learning.

Listen in silence because if your heart is full of other things you cannot hear the voice of God

God often speaks loudest when we're quietest.

I must exchange whispers with God before shouts with the world.

A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive.

Solitude is the practice of being absent from people and things to attend to God.

I want to think quietly, calmly, spaciously, never to be interrupted, never to have to rise from my chair, to slip easily from one thing to another, without any sense of hostility, or obstacle. I want to sink deeper and deeper, away from the surface, with its hard separate facts.