To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men.
May we all grow in grace and peace and not neglect the silence that is printed in the center of our being. It will not fail us.
Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?
What will it profit a man if he gains his cause and silences his adversary if at the same time he loses that humble, tender frame of spirit in which the Lord delights, and to which the promise of his presence is made?
If you cannot improve upon the silence, do not speak.
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
By not speaking you don't get rid of the story, you just open up a silence, which can be just as loud.
He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted street, at dawn. His solitude was so complete, beneath a lovely sky as mellow and serene as a good conscience, amid that busy throng, that he was amazed at his own existence; he must be somebody else's nightmare, and whoever it was would certainly awaken soon.
Silence is the only language god speaks.
In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.
The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.
It takes some silence to make sound.
Things that are real are given and received in silence.
The silence of the mountain is even more beautiful once the birds are quiet.
I take out little moments of silence before or after they sing, because I just love those weird pauses.
I'd rather suffer the consequences of truth than of silence.
Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
There is nothing quite as painful as a truly awkward silence.
If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.
