Inspirational Quote by Thomas Keating

The beginning of prayer is silence.

— Mother Teresa

The silence of prayer is the silence of listening.

— Elizabeth O'Connor

“Silence is one of many forms of prayer.”

— Anonymous

It is to this silence [contemplative prayer] that we all are called.

— Henri Nouwen

Prayer is a silent surrendering of everything to God.

— Soren Kierkegaard

The seeker's silence is the loudest form of prayer.

— Swami Vivekananda

Some prayers are followed by silence because they are wrong, others because they are bigger than we can understand.

— Oswald Chambers

The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega, it is God's brooding over the face of the waters; it…

— Annie Dillard

Prayer is like a secret garden made up of silence and rest and inwardness. But there are a thousand and one doors into this…

— Jean Vanier

“The fruit of Silence is Prayer…”

— Anonymous

“We need to find God and God cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature—trees and…

— Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Prayer is speaking to God - but sometimes He uses our times of prayerful silence to speak to us in return.

— Billy Graham