Prayer Quote by Alice Hoffman

“God first created silence: whole, indivisible, complete. All creatures--man, woman, beast, insect, bird, and fish--lived happily together with this silence until one day man…

— John Zerzan

“the silence of God is God.”

— Carolyn Forché

“As the rifles were pointed at his chest he wondered if what he had taken for the richness of silence was really the poverty…

— Nicole Krauss

“God has never really spoken, though a thought once crossed His mind. It is the echo of divine silence we hear the birds sing,…

— Daniel Ladinsky

“My silence was my salvation; the silence of years of trying to say something without much understanding; the silence of desperate action. This would…

— Njabulo Ndebele

Silence came before creation, and the heavens were spread without a word

— Mother Teresa

“One has a moral obligation to take responsibility for one’s actions, and that includes one’s words and silences, yes, one’s silences, because silences rise…

— Roberto Bolaño

“God speaks for the silent man.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Silence has its own language and in that silence he found words within himself; words for her, words for him and words for them.”

— Faraaz Kazi

“If he is not the word of God, then God never spoke.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“Silence will illuminate you in God... and deliver you from phantoms of ignorance. Silence will unite you to God.... In the beginning we have…

— Isaac of Nenevah

“There was something that He hid from all men, when he went up a mountain to pray. There was something that he covered constantly…

— G.K. Chesterton