Everybody prays whether [you think] of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when something very beautiful is… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
a connotation of infinity sharpens the temporal splendor of this night when souls which have forgot frivolity in lowliness,noting the fatal flight… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It would be strange to live in a country where people were silent, passing one another in the street wordlessly, as if… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
The Waystone was his, just as the third silence was his. This was appropriate, as it was the greatest silence of the… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Bigger questions, questions with more than one answer, questions without an answer are the hardest to cope with in silence. Once asked… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Sometimes, You Need To Be Alone. Sometimes Not Even Your Best Friend Need To Know. Sometimes You Just Need To Put Up… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
“My speech impediment had been absent for some time now—four months and six days. I’d almost imagined myself cured. So when Mother… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
this is thy hour o soul, thy free flight into the wordless, away from books, away from art, the day erased, the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block. The… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with such applause in the lecture room, How soon, unaccountable, I became tired… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
What feeling feels like over time. An attempt to screw up what feeling feels like over time. Heartbreak and a high C…… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
“On an impulse he went into the room and stood before the window, pushing aside the sheer curtain to watch the snow,… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
The library smells like old books — a thousand leather doorways into other worlds. I hear silence, like the mind of God.… — Laura Whitcomb Copy Share Image
Meditation is helping me learn to sit still. Twenty minutes of meditation in the morning is a nice way to start my… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
“I don't know when I've experienced a more massive silence than the one that followed my reading of his cheery epistle. Young… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Republicans' relationship with corporations is baffling. One minute, they are protecting corporations from what they envision as a marauding band of liberals.… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
“The couple sat side by side on cushions on the floor, quietly eating breakfast from the low table. They munched in happy… — Louis de Bernières Copy Share Image
“Silence THERE is a silence where hath been no sound, There is a silence where no sound may be, In the cold… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
Then he holds her and for a moment I hear total silence; that totally silent part of a cry that announces that… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I think we communicate only too well, in our silence, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is a continual… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
“Use what you have, use what the world gives you. Use the first day of fall: bright flame before winter's deadness; harvest;… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
If I'm going to continue to be any kind of spiritual teacher, I've got to go deeper myself. And so for me,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
An act goes much farther than a word will ever travel. Even when someone is silent, in different situations this silence is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[The modern age] knows nothing about isolation and nothing about silence. In our quietest and loneliest hour the automatic ice-maker in the… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“ …(my father) would say nothing, And I could not find a silence Among the one hundred Chinese silences That would fit… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
The eloquence of one stimulates all the rest, some up to the speaking-point, and all others to a degree that makes them… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Silence will illuminate you in God... and deliver you from phantoms of ignorance. Silence will unite you to God… In the beginning… — Isaac of Nenevah Copy Share Image
“...Those who know don't talk and those who talk don't know. And even the survivors who have decided to bear witness confirm… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“We have no idea how busy God's hands are even when His mouth seems closed. Where God is concerned, silence never equals… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down, 'Twas sad as sad could be; And we did speak only to break The… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
In an echo of earlier times, the climate change prophets have in recent years tried to silence counter views and suppress dissent.… — Colin Robinson Copy Share Image
Yes, the world may aspire to vacuousness, lost souls mourn beauty, insignificance surrounds us. Then let us drink a cup of tea.… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“Our biggest moments have happened in silence. In glances and embraces. As though our souls had found rest within each other. As… — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
“Augustine of Hippo said, “Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“The doorway into the silent land is a wound. Silence lays bare this wound. We do not journey far along the spiritual… — Martin Laird Copy Share Image
There is a Silence that is totally impersonal. It is not the fruit of anybody’s work. Peace is there, but there is… — Mooji Copy Share Image
“If you are trading silence or compliance for love, you are being cheated. When acceptance or love is withheld if you reveal… — Christina Enevoldsen Copy Share Image
This simple thing has not been that easy to learn. it certainly went against everything I had been taught since I was… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Long drawn, the cool, green shadows Steal o'er the lake's warm breast, And the ancient silence follows The burning sun to rest.… — William Braithwaite Copy Share Image
![“Everybody prays whether [you think] of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when something very beautiful is happening or something very good or very bad. The ah-h-h-h! that sometimes floats up out of you as out of a Fourth of July crowd when the sky-rocket bursts over the water…” quote by Frederick Buechner](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a28/frederick-buechner-883_beautiful_everybody-prays-whether-you-think-of-it_2419045.jpg)
![“If I'm going to continue to be any kind of spiritual teacher, I've got to go deeper myself. And so for me, [I am] preserving long periods of solitude, silence, prayer, journaling, study, writing. I don't turn on music or the TV unless I really need to.” quote by Richard Rohr](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d6a/richard-rohr-618_deeper_if-i-m-going-to-continue-to-be-any-kind_270254.png)
![“[The modern age] knows nothing about isolation and nothing about silence. In our quietest and loneliest hour the automatic ice-maker in the refrigerator will cluck and drop an ice cube, the automatic dishwasher will sigh through its changes, a plane will drone over, the nearest freeway will…” quote by Wallace Stegner](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/868/wallace-stegner-1352_darkness_the-modern-age-knows-nothing-about-isola_1349271.jpg)
