It is better for a man to be silent and be a Christian, than to talk and not to be one. It is good to teach, if he who speaks also acts. There is then one Teacher, who spake and it was done; while even those things which He did in silence are worthy of the Father.
–Saint Ignatius of Antioch (First Century)
By our prayer we share the life of God. True prayer demands that we be more passive than active; it requires more silence than words, more adoration than study, more concentration than rushing about, more faith than reason. The highest state of prayer is to be children in the arms of Love: silent, loving, rejoicing.
–Carlo Coretto (1910-1988)
Your silence may serve others better than the sound of your own words.
–Madeleine Delbrel (1904-1964)
Only those who have experienced the solitude and the silence of the wilderness can know the benefit and divine joy they bring to those who love them.
–Saint Bruno (1030-1101)
