If Mystery is the goal and content of all religious…

Writing by hand is a way of letting mystery into my writing. But I'm constantly trying to figure out how to do this job.…

— Lauren Groff

Nothing more enhances authority than silence. It is the crowning virtue of the strong, the refuge of the weak, the modesty of the proud,…

— Charles de Gaulle

“115. Infallibly, silence leads to God, provided man stops looking at himself. For even in the experience of silence, there is a snare: narcissism and…

— Robert Sarah

Silence is the necessary soil for any thought to flourish.

— Stephen Hough

To obtain the pure silence necessary for the disciple, the heart and emotions, the brain and its intellectualisms, have to be put aside. Both…

— Mabel Collins

Experience yourself in silence.

— Erich Schiffmann

“I think we should always remember that reading -- the experience of a book -- is a very private, very personal kind of thing.…

— Lloyd Alexander

God is the ultimate experience of silence, of beauty, of bliss, a state of inner celebration.

— Rajneesh

“Silence promotes the presence of God, prevents many harsh and proud words, and suppresses many dangers in the way of ridiculing or harshly judging…

— François Fénelon

Silence is the necessary space around things that allows them to develop and flourish without my pushing.

— Richard Rohr

The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.

— Ramana Maharshi

“Silence is a necessary requirement for unnatural acts.”

— Kathryn Cottam

Within each of us, there is a silence, a silence as vast as the universe. And when we experience that silence, we remember who…

— Anonymous

I just had a thought that perhaps religion is so vibrant here is because of the melting pot aspect to our society. WE have…

— Sally Quinn

When I was in my teens I had a series of intensely religious experiences. They deepened my sense of God as the creator of…

— Andrew Linzey