Quotes about Solitude
If you aren't constantly astonished at God's grace in your solitude, there's no way it can happen in public.
— Timothy Keller
Bare heights of loneliness...a wilderness whose burning winds sweep over glowing sands, what are they to HIM? Even there He can refresh us, even there He can renew us.
— Amy Carmichael
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
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone.
— Thomas Jefferson
I feel strongly that the God we meet in solitude is always the God who calls us to community.
— Henri Nouwen
The speech of God is silence. His Word is solitude.
— Thomas Merton
The best thing must be to flee from all to the All.
— Teresa of Avila
Prayer is - keeping company with God.
— Philip Yancey
If you meet God in solitude, you discover the God you meet is the God who embraces all people.
— Henri Nouwen
To be unknown to God is altogether too much privacy.
— Thomas Merton
O God, my God, the night has values that the day never dreamed of.
— Thomas Merton
And he who would be friends with God must remain alone, or make the whole world his friend
— Mahatma Gandhi