SO GOOD QUOTES

Category: SILENCE

  • The person who really knows what’s going on, a lot of times, you find him more reserved.

    —Fr. Mina Dimitri

  • “The ineloquent man was wiser than the wise.”

    —Saint John Chrysostom, On the Vanity of Riches
    HOMILY Two
    After Eutropios, having been found outside the church, was taken captive

  • It can be one or two questions, or more; write all of them and then sit in silence waiting for God to speak to you. Be assured that when you train yourself, then an idea or a thought will come to your mind, which you have never thought about, and it will give you peace.

    —H.E. Metropolitan Youssef, How to Know the Will of God

  • “If you find yourself becoming irritated, control your nerves and control your tongue, control your facial expressions and control your movements, and do not allow yourself to mistreat another, however much they erred against you.”

    —H.H. Pope Shenouda III

  • The prophet Jeremiah says that our waiting on God should be characterized by hope and quietness:

    “The Lord is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.  It is good that one should hope and wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.” (Lamentations 3:25-26)

    How are you waiting? Patiently or impatiently? Quietly or complainingly? With hope or with despair? It might just be that HOW you’re waiting will impact HOW LONG you’re waiting as well.

    —Fr. Antony Paul

  • “Those who can sit in silence with their fellow man, not knowing what to say, but knowing that they should be there, can bring new life in a dying heart.”

    —Henri Nouwen,Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life

  • Still, when we honestly ask ourselves which persons in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not-curing, not-healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

    —Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life

  • Misery.—The only thing which consoles us for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries. For it is this which principally hinders us from reflecting upon ourselves, and which makes us insensibly ruin ourselves. Without this we should be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us to seek a more solid means of escaping from it. But diversion amuses us, and leads us unconsciously to death.

    —Blaise Pascal, Pensées

  • Let us remain humble when we speak about someone else’s suffering. Only the one who has truly suffered has the right to speak.

    —Robert Sarah, The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise

  • When someone hurts you, do not answer back, but meet the hurt with silence.

    —H.H. Pope Shenouda III, A Whisper of Love: Poems, Prayers and Sayings