The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the night of God.
The talkative listen to no one, for they are ever speaking. And the first evil that attends those who know not to be silent is that they hear nothing.
There is much in Christianity which can be subjected to exact analysis. But the ultimate things are shrouded in the silent mysteries of God.
About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don't go by one text only.
Oh, how much holier the world would be if more people invoked their right to remain silent.
I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind
Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak.
real misery delights not in reproaches and complaints. It is like charity and love - silent, long suffering and mild.
I think music comes out of silence... and I have a lot of silent time, without a pesky guitar interrupting my thoughts.
If we took a moment of silence for each person lost to abortion, we would be silent for over 100 years.
I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them.
Let us accept the invitation, ever-open, from the Stillness, taste its exquisite sweetness, and heed its silent instruction.
I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!
God has so arranged the chronometry of our spirits, that there shall be thousands of silent moments between the striking hours.
The real 'work' of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me.
Never be silent with persons you love and distrust," Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays.
Blood of my heart, protection is thine. Life of my life, taking yours, taking mine Body of my body, marrow and mind Soul of my soul, to our spirit bind Blood of my heart, my tides, my moon Blood of my heart, my salvation, my doom
In the 1980s and the 1990s, when HIV hit its peak, the gay community was at the forefront of the fight against the silent killer.
Every organization has issues and concerns which are known about by many people who choose to remain silent.
When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space.
Senators who once supported common-sense legislation have gone silent as stones under the threat of the polluters' spending.
Coolidge is the best living demonstration that, if you keep silent long enough, something fortunate may happen to you.
Yesterday, happiness came in suddenly, as it used to, and remained for a moment in the great, dark, silent drawing room.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. G.B. Stern "If you count all your assets, you always show a profit."
The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.
People influence each other, so one screening will be filled with laughs while another is dead silent.
Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent.
A clean heart is a free heart. A free heart can love Christ with an undivided love in chastity, convinced that nothing and nobody will separate it from his love. Purity, chastity, and virginity created a special beauty in Mary that attracted God's attention. He showed his great love for the world by giving Jesus to her.
I live alone, so I dont really talk to anyone once Im home. I have some silent nights.
I believe the U.S. has been way too silent on the brutality, the lack of human rights in the Muslim world for women.
Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.
I believe that happiness can be found. If I thought otherwise, I should be silent and not make unhappiness the more bitter by discussing it.
We do not stray out of all words into the ever silent;
We do not raise our hands to the void for things beyond hope.
If we live in our oneness-heart, we will feel the essence of all religions, which is love of God. But if we live in the mind, we will only try to separate one religion from another and see how their ideologies differ. It is the heart that can have a true intuitive understanding of the height and breadth of all religions. It is the heart that sees and feels the inner harmony and oneness of all religions.
I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.
I hate this idea in the Cinematheque that you must watch silent movies with no music, like it's a piece of art. It's not true.
On our watch, the conversation with a would-be suicide bomber will not begin with the words, 'You have the right to remain silent.'
Silent white light filled the world. And the righteous and unrighteous alike were consumed in that holy fire.
Loving people does not require you to stay silent when you see something that merits being called out.
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. We feel it in a thousand things. I say that the heart naturally loves the Universal Being, and naturally loves itself; and it gives itself to one or the other, and hardens itself against one or the other, as it chooses...it is the heart that feels God, not the reason; this is faith.
...dusk is the time when men whisper of matters about which they remain silent in the full light of the sun.
My wife and daughter have accused me of being too silent at breakfast but I don't want to talk when I don't have much to say.
Tinseltown is eerily silent when The Oscars, The Emmys and The Grammys, The Sag Awards, and The Golden Globes aren't in full swing.
Who waits until the wind shall silent keep Will never find the ready hour to sow.
I will not remain silent, resigned to watch as my fellow prisoners collapse under the strain of slavery-like conditions.
Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers.
You can be angry and silent, but it's no use - there's no distance in the spirit - besides, my words touch you more softly than my hands.
While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.
I agree that not responding, and blocking his email, is the way to deal with the man you hope falls silent again.
Usually, I'll drop twenty to forty per cent of the dialogue - you can do so much with gesture. I'm still waiting to do a silent film.
I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them
It takes courage to speak up against complacency and injustice while others remain silent. But that's what leadership is.
Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.
I always get compared to looking like a silent movie star - though I don't know if that's a compliment, honestly.
He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.
There is a 3rd point of view on the gun control issue - those who I refer to as THE VICTIMS - but they remain strangely silent.
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