his silence QUOTES

1 " God is our Father and loves us, even when his silence remains incomprehensible. "

2 " Quoting from Thomas Merton
Dialogues With Silence
The true contemplative is not one who prepares his mind for a particular message that he wants or expects to hear, but is one who remains empty because he knows that he can never expect to anticipate the words that will transform his darkness into light. He does not even anticipate a special kind of transformation. He does not demand light instead of darkness. He waits on the Word of God in silence, and, when he is answered it is not so much by a word that bursts into his silence. It is by his silence itself, suddenly, inexplicably revealing itself to him as a word of great power, full of the voice of God. (17) "

― , The Wisdom of Yoga: A Seeker's Guide to Extraordinary Living

3 " Anyone who has learned the Quran and holds it lovingly in his heart will 'value his nights when people are asleep, his days when people are given to excess, his grief when people are joyful, his weeping when people laugh, his silence when people chatter and his humility when people are arrogant'. In other words every moment of life will be precious to him, and he should therefore be 'gentle', never harsh nor quarrelsome, 'nor one who makes a clamour in the market nor one who is quick to anger'. "

― Ibn Mas'ud

4 " S: But Chris, I think his embarrassment isn't in relation to you or me but to himself. What can he do?
C: I hate being thrown into such a physical state.
S: Isn't that experiencing life to the hilt?
C: No, it's just a dumb infatuation. I'm so ashamed.
S: But even if his silence hurts you, isn't that what attracted you to him? The fact that he was inaccessible. So, I think there is a contradiction there, at least nothing to feel ashamed of -. "

― Chris Kraus , I Love Dick

5 " The soldier stared at Ingrid. His silence was elastic, slowly curling a rope around her neck. "

― Ruta Sepetys , Salt to the Sea

6 " The end occurred mostly in her whispers and his silence - because he couldn't whisper and they didn't want to wake Colin's parents. They succeeded in staying quiet, in part because it felt like the air had been shocked out of him. Paradoxically, he felt as if his getting dumped was the only thing happening on the entire dark and silent planet, and also as if it weren't happening at all. He felt himself drifting away from the one-sided whispered conversation, wondering if maybe everything big and heartbreaking and incomprehensible is a paradox. "

7 " Only their efforts to make him talk failed. he would say one word at a time, if pressed, but seemed happier not to and could not be made to repeat a whole line. Gradually, as his family learnt how to anticipate his few needs and how to respond, they ceased to notice his silence -his manner of communication seemed full and rich enough to them: he no more needed to converse than Aunt Mira's cat did. "

― Anita Desai , Clear Light of Day

8 " But as the years passed, Ned's silence grew and grew. It pressed upon his face and his body. It leaked into the house and spread outward into the yard. His silence had weight. It had substance and presence and teeth. "

― Kelly Barnhill , The Witch's Boy

9 " I love theologians, they know god cannot speak so they spend their energy trying to explain to us what his silence means "

― Bangambiki Habyarimana , The Great Pearl of Wisdom

10 " You say " But He has not answered." He has He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet but presently you will. "

11 " A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words. "