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In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance.
Concealment | Revelation | Silence | Speech |
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
Silence |
Wilferd Peterson, fully Wilferd Arlan Peterson
You become spiritually rich when you discover the riches of the kingdom within: when you have a consciousness of the oneness of all life; when you experience kinship with nature; when you are open to the buoyant spiritual life of being in tune with the Infinite; when you know the power of meditation and prayer.
Consciousness | Experience | Life | Life | Meditation | Nature | Oneness | Power | Prayer | Riches | Riches |
The spiritual life is nothing else but the working of the Spirit of God within us, and therefore our own silence must be a great part of our preparation for it, and much speaking or delight in it will often no small hindrance of that good which we can only have from hearing what the Spirit and voice of God speaketh within us.
God | Good | Life | Life | Nothing | Silence | Spirit | Will | God |
Wilferd Peterson, fully Wilferd Arlan Peterson
The key to the art of prayer is thought. As we think so we pray. The highest level of prayer is to think God’s thoughts after Him, to attune our lives to love, hope, faith, justice, kindness; to become open channels for the goodness of God. Prayer is quiet meditation about eternal values. It is the mind adventuring in the universe. Prayer moves with the instantaneous speed of thought, through infinite space, to the four corners of the earth, to the depth of the human heart, to the mountaintop of inspiration.
Art | Earth | Eternal | Faith | God | Heart | Hope | Inspiration | Justice | Kindness | Love | Meditation | Mind | Prayer | Quiet | Space | Thought | Universe | Art | Think |
The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery.
The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished, not be doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
Silence | Truth | Propaganda |
Bob Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman
Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.
Experience | People | Silence |
Marquis de Sade, born Donatien Alphonse François de Sade
So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
Chastity | Discretion | Display | Opinion | Public | Silence |
Emily Dickinson, fully Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Silence is all we dread. There's Ransom in a Voice - but Silence is Infinity.
Silence |
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
François Fénelon, fully Francois de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon
The coldness of our love is the silence of our hearts toward God. Without this we may pronounce prayers, but we do not pray; for what shall lead us to mate upon the laws of God, if it be not love of Him who has made these laws? Let our hearts be full of love then, and they will pray.
François Fénelon, fully Francois de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon
We cease to pray to God as soon as we cease to love Him, as soon as we cease to thirst for His perfections. The coldness of our love is the silence of our hearts toward God. Without this we may pronounce prayers, but we do not pray; for what shall lead us to mate upon the laws of God if it be not the love of Him who has made these laws? Let our hearts be full of love, then, and they will pray.
Augustus or Augustus Caesar, fully Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus, NULL
No risk attends the meed that silence brings.