Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
We must ask ourselves how many times others would benefit more from our silence than from our words.
Where shall the word be found, where will the word / Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.
Friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway. The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
There's one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die - their silence.
The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.
If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.
Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.
Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
Anger is the noise of the soul; the unseen irritant of the heart; the relentless invader of silence.
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
I will be waiting here.... For your silence to break, For your soul to shake, For your love to wake!
I'm a songwriter. I need silence to hear the melodies, so I don't fill the days with a lot of sound.