Monica Johnson Quotes

I think the whole world should try not talking for a day.

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

I get very nervous when it's quiet, because I think it's dead. What I learned in the moment was to hold back a little before you talk.

Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted.

Silence, this will surprise you not, isn't really a Jewish concept.

I always defined myself in terms of my talkativeness, and being without a voice hits me in a number of ways.

Jesus is the very concrete truth revealing and standing in for the universal truth.

God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour.

The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may listen the more and talk the less.

It's hard to misquote someone who doesn't say anything.

When you have nothing to say, you don't talk.

I ain't got much to say.

We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river.

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.

The Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world, because it tells me his story; and what good men thought about him who knew him and accepted him.

Right speech comes out of silence and right silence comes out of speech.

Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.

Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.

I am interested in silences

He that speakes sowes, and he that holds his peace, gathers.

True silence is really endless speech.

The speech of God is silence. His Word is solitude.