Thomas Keating Quotes

Silence is the only language god speaks.

The language of silence is the language of God, the language of silence is the language of the heart.

Silence is God's language, and it's a very difficult language to learn.

Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God.

The disciplines of prayer, silence, and contemplation as practiced by the monastics and mystics are precisely that - stopping the noise, slowing down, and becoming still so that God can break through all our activity and noise to speak to us. Prayer serves to put all parts of our lives in God's presence, reminding us how holy our humanity really is.

The word must be heard in silence; there must be darkness to see the stars.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noises and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature-trees, flowers, grass-grow in silence. Is not our mission to give God to those we walk with? Not a dead God, but a living, loving God. The more we receive in silent prayer, the more we can give in active life. We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say, but what God says to us and through us. Words that don't give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

Silence gives us a new outlook on everything. We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say but what God says to us and through us.

We just sat there quiet for a long time, which was fine, and I was thinking about way back in the very beginning in the Literal Heart of Jesus.

The first requirement for prayer is silence. People of prayer are people of silence.

The beginning of prayer is silence.

It has been said with some meaning that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of the spheres.

Souls of prayer are souls of great silence

The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega, it is God's brooding over the face of the waters; it is the blinded note of the ten thousand things, the whine of wings. You take a step in the right direction to pray to this silence, and even to address the prayer to "World." Distinctions blur. Quit your tents. Pray without ceasing.

By and by... there are more and more gaps of silence. Through those gaps, windows will open to the divine.

There is a divine depth in silence. We meet God alone.

He got right down in the dark between heartbeats, and rested there. And then he saw that another one wasn't going to come. That's it. That's the last. He looked at the dark. I would like to take this opportunity, he said, to pray for another human being.

Prayer is like a secret garden made up of silence and rest and inwardness. But there are a thousand and one doors into this garden and we all have to find our own.

A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.

But now I have learned to listen to silence. To hear its choirs singing the song of ages, chanting the hymns of space, and disclosing the secrets of eternity.

Friends, do not be afraid of silence or stillness. Listen to God. Adore Him in the Eucharist.

The fruit of Silence is Prayer.

Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

I have a real problem with stillness. With just stopping and being quiet.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.