Top 100 Silence God Quotes
#1. Things that are real are given and received in Silence. God has been everlastingly working in Silence, unobserved, unheard, except by those who experience His Infinite Silence.
Meher Baba
#2. In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.
Thomas Merton
#3. 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
#4. In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.
Mother Teresa
#5. The very presence of an angel is communication. Even when an angel crosses your path in silence, God has said to us, I am here. I am present in your life.
Tobais Palmer
#6. Man is an angry, savage being. Sometimes faith becomes an excuse for battle. It is no real faith then. In justifying their positions in the name of God, men silence God.
C.J. Sansom
#7. If we have not silence, God is not heard in our music. If we have no rest God, does not bless our work.
Thomas Merton
#8. Let us love silence till the world is made to die in our hearts. Let us always remember death, and in this thought draw near to God in our heart - and the pleasures of this world will have our scorn.
Isaac Jogues
#9. Even a priest may doubt. Even a prophet may know terror. Aeron Damphair reached within himself for his god and discovered only silence.
George R R Martin
#10. Emptiness is only a disguise for an intimacy of God's, that God's silence, the eerie stillness, is filled by the Word without words, by Him who is above all names, by Him who is all in all. And his silence is telling us that He is here.
Karl Rahner
#11. Yet, no matter how deeply I go down into myself, my God is dark, and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#12. I called my wife up on the cell phone and said baby you aint gonna believe this, i go, we just hit a deer with the airplane. and there was a silence on the other end of the line followed by.. OH MY GOD.! were you on the ground? I said nope, santa was makin one last run..
Bill Engvall
#13. It is time at last for all the gods to be silent.
Marty Rubin
#14. Silence ... leads us to make a gift of self rather than a selfishness that has been gift-wrapped ... Silence does not mean running away but rather recollecting ourselves in the open space of God.
Madeleine Delbrel
#15. I have always been on speaking terms with God, especially now. God and I just had a few weeks of silence. 'Tis over now.
Jennifer Hudson Taylor
#16. But why will God not speak to me? ... I think when God is silent, He wants us to prove in our hearts that we are willing to follow Him no matter the cost. If all answers were crystal-clear, how could we show our devotion to Him?
Jennifer Beckstrand
#17. Let us shout of our God from the rooftops, that the whole world would stand in silence before him.
Kevin DeYoung
#18. Yet accurate speech about anything, and especially about God, is in fact a rhythm of silence and speech, speaking and listening.
Ellen F. Davis
#19. God's warriors don't avoid conflict. They fight through it with communication and a positive outlook.
Shannon L. Alder
#20. A saint speaks with God or with himself, two forms of silence.
Octavio Paz
#22. After a murmur of general assent, Ariadne spoke up. "And oh my God, I have to pump my boobs. You guys, you don't even know. It's like having blue balls strapped to your chest!" After a horrified silence, the men practically ran screaming from the building.
Amy Lane
#23. To think is to have doubt ... yet even thinking will bring you to "no thought" ... eventually.
Vivian Amis
#24. You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind.
Sathya Sai Baba
#25. They ask only one question: "what is pleasing to the Spirit of God?" And as soon as they have heard the sound of the Spirit in the silence and solitude of their hearts, they follow its promptings even if it upsets their friends, disrupts their environment, and confuses their admirers.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#26. Silence gives us a new outlook on everything. We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say but what God says to us and through us.
Mother Teresa
#27. It is in descending in the humble silence of prayer that we are able to ascend to the greatest heights of true human fulfillment in union with God.
Mac MacKenzie
#28. God speaks in the silence of the heart
Listening is the beginning of prayer.
Justin Bieber
#29. Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, silent remembering and pure intention raises the heart to that supreme Power.
Amit Ray
#30. We are starved for quiet, to hear the sound of sheer silence that is the presence of God himself.
Ruth Haley Barton
#31. Snow reminds Ka of God! But I'm not sure it would be accurate. What brings me close to God is the silence of snow.
Orhan Pamuk
#32. Only after all the noise has spent itself do we begin to hear in the silence of our heart, the still, small, mighty voice of God.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#33. Believing is nothing other than, in the darkness of the world, touching the hand of God, and in this way, in silence, hearing the Word, seeing love.
Pope Benedict XVI
#34. God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.
Woody Allen
#35. Silence is the language of God; it is also the language of the heart.
Sivananda
#36. I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.
Elie Wiesel
#37. Words engage our minds, but in the silence we hear the Presence of God.
Ram Dass
#38. Prayer is no fitful, short-lived thing. It is no voice crying unheard and unheeded in the silence. It is a voice which goes into God's ear, and it lives as long as God's ear is open to holy pleas, as long as God's heart is alive to holy things.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#39. The voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric.
Francis Quarles
#41. Advent, this powerful liturgical season that we are beginning, invites us to pause in silence to understand a presence. It is an invitation to understand that the individual events of the day are hints that God is giving us, signs of the attention he has for each one of us.
Pope Benedict XVI
#43. The Christian who, by God's grace, learns to confess the Lord Jesus in circumstances which might normally be calculated to silence him, is a Christian whose life is a tremendous challenge to other people.
Alan Redpath
#44. To be strong, to steer straight onward, to dare to praise God, to sit alone and keep silence because He has laid it upon us, to put our mouths in the dust, if so be there may be hope
here is fortitude indeed.
F.B. Meyer
#45. Silence from God is the loudest and saddest thing I've ever heard.
Lacey Sturm
#46. Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language.
Fulton J. Sheen
#47. Eyes speak louder than words; life is precious; hate is poison; God is the best of all possible friends; silence and time are valuable treasures; happiness can be just as powerful in pretend; and soft licorice is a temptation in any color, especially exotic black.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#48. He wondered if what he had taken for the richness of silence was really the poverty of never being heard [ ... ]. How could he have forgotten what he had always known: there is no match for the silence of God.
Nicole Krauss
#49. Silence of the heart is necessary so you can hear God everywhere - in the closing of the door, in the person who needs you, in the birds that sing, in the flowers, in the animals.
Mother Teresa
#50. Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God.
Arvo Part
#51. I did pray. I kept on Praying. But prayer did nothing to alleviate their suffering.
Shusaku Endo
#52. Only in the sacredness of inward silence does the soul truly meet the secret, hiding God. The strength of resolve, which afterward shapes life, and mixes itself with action, is the fruit of those sacred, solitary moments. There is a divine depth in silence. We meet God alone.
Frederick William Robertson
#53. There are many kinds of silences and not all signify absence or vacancy....Those moments are but temporary ebbs before the flow of meaning rushes in to fill the space....God may be speaking 'in ways we have yet to recognize as speech.
Terryl L. Givens
#54. We have seen the highest circle of spiraling powers. We have named this circle God. We might have given it any other name we wished: Abyss, Mystery, Absolute Darkness, Absolute Light, Matter, Spirit, Ultimate Hope, Ultimate Despair, Silence.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#55. Sometimes, God's silence is a challenge for us to act
Sunday Adelaja
#56. Walk with me now into the very bright night, and revere with me in silence what must be God-given and what is surely God-taken.
Carew Papritz
#57. Your heart is the roots to God.
Your heart is nourished by truth, by God, but you have forgotten the heart.
Come back to the heart, and you will be able to know the truth.
You will be able to know the truth as the truth and the false as the false.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#58. 265. "Let the oratory be what it is called, and let nothing else be done or stored there. When the work of God is finished, let all go out with the deepest silence and let reverence be shown to God."~
St. Benedict
#59. Christianity offers a different vision, the vision of a merciful and loving God, whose "silence" about our sins need not be interpreted as a sign of His nonexistence, but instead as an expression of His patience and readiness to forgive. But
Tomas Halik
#60. God does communicate with those who are willing to obey Him. He penetrates the dark silence with free, life-giving discoveries in nature, the human conscience, Scripture, and the Person of Jesus Christ.
Billy Graham
#61. God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a very elementary condition of grace.
Oswald Chambers
#62. What I have experienced, and experienced repeatedly, is the silence of God. For many years, this was a distressing matter for me. I did not consider it an experience, but the absence of an experience.
James P. Carse
#63. In the silence, while awaiting the distant footsteps of death he heard someone weeping! O God, was that you?
Preeth Nambiar
#64. I will tell no one what I know of the two of you. But I would ask one small price for my silence. (Damien)
And that is? (Rowena)
If you still believe in God, then say a prayer for me. He turned a deaf ear to my pleas long ago. (Damien)
Kinley MacGregor
#65. Red like blood White like bone Red like solitude White like silence Red like the beastly instinct White like a god's heart Red like thawing hatred White like a frozen, pained cry Red like the night's hungry shadows Like a sigh piercing the moon it shines white and shatters red
Tite Kubo
#66. God speaks to us through our conscience. This may be a "still small voice" that will not let us go until we do what we know is right ... we must never silence that inner voice - [but] check what we think it is saying against the Scriptures.
Billy Graham
#67. Come into the silence of solitude, and the vibration there will talk to you through the voice of God.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#68. Did He give me the gift of love to say who I could choose? When God made me did He give me the gift of voice so some could silence me? Did he give me the gift of vision not knowing what I might see? Did he give me the gift of compassion to help my fellow man?
Neil Young
#69. Bacamarte evidenced neither vanity nor modesty; he listened in silence, as impassive as a stone god.
Machado De Assis
#70. Think not that when thou art dry and darksom in the presence of God, with faith and silence, that thou do'st nothing, that thou losest time, and that thou are idle, because not to wait on God, according to the saying of St. Bernard (Tom.5.in Fract. de vit. solit.c.8.p. 90.), is the greatest idleness
Miguel De Molinos
#71. Silence, as someone has said, is the mother of prayer and the nurse of holy thoughts. Silence cuts down on our sins, doesn't it? We can't be sinning in so many different ways if we are being quiet before God. Silence nourishes patience, charity, discretion.
Elisabeth Elliot
#72. Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
James Russell Lowell
#73. One of the great things silence does, it gives us a new concept of God.
Calvin Miller
#74. There was a silence on the tors that belonged to another age; an age that is past and vanished as though it had never been, an age when man did not exist, but pagan footsteps trod upon the hills. And there was a stillness in the air, and a stranger, older peace, that was not the peace of God.
Daphne Du Maurier
#75. God has special confidences for each soul. Indeed, it would seem as though the deepest truths came only in moments of profound devotional silence and contemplation.
Charles Brent
#76. Keep silence, be mute.
If you have not yet become the tongue of GOD,
be an ear!
Rumi
#77. Contemplation means rest, suspension of activity, withdrawal into the mysterious interior solitude in which the soul is absorbed in the immense and fruitful silence of God and learns something of the secret of His perfections less by seeing than by fruitive love.
Thomas Merton
#78. You hid in my ink and guided my hand. You stained the pages with your silence as God wrote the words, "Be still." Yet, my heart's blindness could only write in loud hues of red, "I love you.
Shannon L. Alder
#79. A season of silence is the best preparation for speech with God.
Samuel Chadwick
#80. Listen to God's speech in his wondrous, terrible, gentle, loving, all-embracing silence.
Catherine Doherty
#81. The friend of silence comes close to God. In secret he converses with him and receives his light.
John Climacus
#82. ...there is something which impresses the mind with awe in the shade and silence of these vast forests. In the deep solitude, alone with nature, we converse with God.
Thaddeus Mason Harris
#83. See, once you have begun to experience solitude and silence, you discover that you actually have a soul and that there is a God.Then you can begin to practice Sabbath and that will enable you to re-enter community.You can't have community without Sabbath.
Dallas Willard
#84. The silence of God's voice will make you wonder if He is even there. And the absence of God's presence will make you wonder if He even cares. He is. And He does.
Charles R. Swindoll
#85. Look up and see His Word among the stars, where He has set your Name along with His. Look up and find your certain destiny the world would hide but God would have you see. C-ep.4. Let us wait here in silence, and kneel
Foundation For Inner Peace
#86. True silence is a garden enclosed, where alone the soul can meet its God.
Catherine Doherty
#87. Oh God, is this like Silence of the Lambs?" Tears flowed down her face. "I don't want to go down the hole! I won't put lotion on the skin! Look at me, you won't be able to wear my skin, I won't cover your huge ass!" She wailed.
Alanea Alder
#88. Among all nations there should be vast temples raised where people might worship in silence and listen to it, for it is the voice of God
Jerome K. Jerome
#89. Sometimes God is silent because He wants to check how much we trust Him.
Sunday Adelaja
#90. Openness to God demands our growing acceptance that we cannot create blueprints for our own lives. Though God's character is unchanging, the ways of God are unpredictable, and there is a difference between arbitrariness and unpredictability.
Enuma Okoro
#91. Let us allow ourselves to be 'infected' by St. Joseph's silence! We need it greatly, in a world that is often too noisy, that does not favor meditation or listening to the voice of God.
Pope Benedict XVI
#92. We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.
George Eliot
#93. And then, in that regal silence, finally - I began to meditate on (and with) God.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#94. 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.
Mother Teresa
#95. They say the silence is the language of God, but so is music. This is why we dance, we become loud in our silence.
Aleksandra Ninkovic
#96. Somewhere in those depths of silence I came upon my first experiences of God as a loving presence that was always near, and prayer as a simple trust in that presence.
Cynthia Bourgeault
#97. God will of necessity always be a hidden God. His loudest cry is silence. If he does not manifest himself to us, we will say that he hides himself. And if he manifests himself, we will accuse him of veiling himself. Ah! it is not easy for God to make himself known to us!
Louis Evely
#98. There is nothing so much like God in all the universe as silence.
Meister Eckhart
#99. God is the ultimate experience of silence, of beauty, of bliss, a state of inner celebration.
Rajneesh
#100. Something is happening because of silence, because of peace, because of silence; if your mind is silent, if your mind is quiet, there is God, there is silence, this is the silence that is contagious.
H.W.L. Poonja
