It is in lonely solitude that God delivers His best thoughts, and the mind needs to be still and quiet to receive them.
- Charles Swindoll
The soul is never quiet till it comes to God . . . and that is the one thing the soul desireth.
- Richard Sibbes
In the same way that a powerful medicine cures an illness, so illness itself is a medicine to cure passion. And there is much profit of soul in bearing illness quietly and giving thanks to God.
- Syncletica of Alexandria
Let us allow ourselves to be 'infected' by St. Joseph's silence! We need it greatly, in a world that is often too noisy, that does not favor meditation or listening to the voice of God.