Quotes about Silence
The speech of God is silence. His Word is solitude.
— Thomas Merton
Listen in silence because if your heart is full of other things you cannot hear the voice of God
— Mother Teresa
When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift?
— CS Lewis
Deepest communion with God is beyond words, on the other side of silence.
— Madeleine L'Engle
If you are hungry to hear the voice of God, you will hear. To hear, you have to cut out all other things.
— Mother Teresa
Seek first God's Kingdom, that is, become like the lilies and the birds, become perfectly silent - then shall the rest be added unto you.
— Soren Kierkegaard
O God, my God, the night has values that the day never dreamed of.
— Thomas Merton
Rest in the Lord; wait patiently for Him. In Hebrew, "Be silent in God, and let Him mould thee." Keep still, and He will mould thee to the right shape.
— Martin Luther
We cannot be passive and silent towards those who reject God's Word and our holy faith.
— Abraham Kuyper
Only after all the noise has spent itself do we begin to hear in the silence of our heart, the still, small, mighty voice of God.
— AW Tozer
Holy Saturday. The best reminder that the silence of God doesn't equal the absence of God.
— Tullian Tchividjian
When I don't understand something, I reach up and hold God's hand. And we walk together in silence.
— Mahatma Gandhi