We can't stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves..

The silence of a flower: a kind of silence which we continually evade, of which we find only the shadow in dreams..

Silence too can be indiscreet..

Attacking me and women who use contraception by calling us prostitutes and worse cannot silence us..

A fence to wisdom is silence..

My focus on silence is to be understood as an intrinsic part of the body's search for meaning amongst the noisy assaults of everyday life. ... What q….

Every noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence..

In this culture the soul and the heart too often go homeless. Listening creates a holy silence. When you listen generously to people, they can hear t….

Silence is a protective coating over pain..

Silence and solitude are confrontational. They plunge us instantly into the truth..

We hear nothing so clearly as what comes out of silence..

We need to listen more, to hear the silence and live in it..

You probably can't get much closer to God than serving a congregation 24/7. At the same time, there's a different kind of closeness in this present l….

The trees grew too thickly, and their trunks were too big for any healthy New England wood. There was too much silence in the dim alleys between them..

you must cry out if you want help. It is no use whatsoever to suffer in silence. Who will succour the drowning man if he does not clamour for his lif….

oblivion has been noticed as the offspring of silence..

Emptiness is only a disguise for an intimacy of God's, that God's silence, the eerie stillness, is filled by the Word without words, by Him who is ab….

And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language..

come back believer in shade believer in silence and elegance believer in ferns believer in patience believer in the rain.

There is nothing quite as painful as a truly awkward silence..

By diminishing the value of silence, publicity has also diminished that of language. The two are inseparable: knowing how to speak has always meant k….