„No prophet ever encountered God without withdrawing into solitude and silence. Moses, Elijah, and John the Baptist encountered God in the great silence of the desert. Today, too, monks seek God in solitude and silence. I am speaking, not just about geographical solitude or movement, but about an interior state. It is not enough to be quiet, either. It is necessary to become silence. For, even before the desert, the solitude and the silence, God is already in man. The true desert is within us, in our soul. Strengthened with this knowledge, we can understand how silence is indispensable if we are to find God. The Father waits for his children in their own hearts.“

„Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart. “

—  Matka Tereza Roman Catholic saint of Albanian origin 1910 - 1997

„The very pure spirit does not bother about the regard of others or human respect, but communes inwardly with God, alone and in solitude as to all forms, and with delightful tranquility, for the knowledge of God is received in divine silence.“

—  John of the Cross Spanish mystic and Roman Catholic saint 1542 - 1591

The Sayings of Light and Love

„There is no companion like solitude. One who knows how to tune himself to the inner silence, even in the midst of the din and roar of the marketplace, enjoys a most recreative solitude.“

—  Chinmayananda Saraswati Indian spiritual teacher 1916 - 1993

Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago

„Through endless time God's greatest gift is continuously given in silence. But whenmankind becomes completely deaf to the thunder of His Silence God incarnates as Man.“

—  Meher Baba Indian mystic 1894 - 1969

44 : God Alone Is, p. 74.
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)

„Even God used silence as a strategy.“

—  Gregory Maguire Novelist 1954

Zdroj: Mirror Mirror

„We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and privacy: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.“

—  Clive Staples Lewis Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist 1898 - 1963

The Weight of Glory (1949)

„her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.“

—  Jane Austen, kniha Anna Elliotová

Zdroj: Persuasion

„God is the silence of the universe, and man is the cry that gives meaning to that silence.“

—  José Saramago Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature 1922 - 2010

Deus é o silêncio do universo, e o homem o grito que dá um sentido a esse silêncio.
Lanzarote Notebooks (1990), quoted in The Notebook, entry for 9 October 2008.

„Silence is the only language god speaks.“

—  Charles Simic American poet 1938

Zdroj: Dime-Store Alchemy

„It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again.“

—  Mark Rothko American painter 1903 - 1970

„When he drapes himself in silence, as God himself dwells in a great silence, man is close to heaven, or, rather, he allows God to manifest himself in him.“

—  Robert Sarah Roman Catholic bishop 1945

The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise (2017)

„God far exceeds all words that we can here express
In silence He is heard, in silence worshiped best“

—  Angelus Silesius German writer 1624 - 1677

The Cherubinic Wanderer

„The materials of the first temple were made ready in solitude. Those of the last also must be shaped in retirement; in the silence of the heart; in the quietness of home; in the practice of unostentatious duty.“

—  Henry Giles Irish minister 1809 - 1882

Zdroj: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 45.

„At the heart of man there is an innate silence, for God abides in the innermost part of every person.“

—  Robert Sarah Roman Catholic bishop 1945

The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise (2017)

„I rarely speak about God. To God yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But open discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.“

—  Elie Wiesel writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor 1928 - 2016

In a 1978 interview with John S. Friedman, published in The Paris Review 26 (Spring 1984); and in Elie Wiesel : Conversations (2002) edited by Robert Franciosi, p. 87

„Silence is of the gods; only monkeys chatter.“

—  Buster Keaton American actor and filmmaker 1895 - 1966

„In silence the three of them looked at the sunset and thought about God.“

—  Maud Hart Lovelace, kniha Betsy-Tacy and Tib

Zdroj: Betsy-Tacy and Tib

„What might we learn about God and ourselves if our Bible study group gathered outside to stare at the stars in silence?“

—  Skye Jethani

The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009, Zondervan)

„I can but die… and I believe in God. Let me try and wait His will in silence.“

—  Charlotte Brontë, kniha Jana Eyrová

Jane (Ch. 28)
Jane Eyre (1847)