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It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.
It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. read more
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Silence is the mother of Truth.
Silence is the mother of Truth.
The silente man still suffers wrong.
The silente man still suffers wrong.
 Striving to tell his woes, words would not come;
 For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.  
 Striving to tell his woes, words would not come;
 For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb. 
 Silence is the genius of fools and one of the virtues of the 
wise.
 [Fr., Le silence est read more 
 Silence is the genius of fools and one of the virtues of the 
wise.
 [Fr., Le silence est l'esprit des sots, et l'une des vertus du 
sage.] 
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, read more
Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.