Sally Quinn Quotes

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.

There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God.

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

Spirituality - prayer - is a big part of my life.

I think I'm a spiritual person. I don't really go to church often when services are on, but I like going in when they are empty and quiet, and just sitting there and thinking for a little while.

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

The ancient spiritual tradition is that God gives himself fully to us in silence and solitude.

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

My hectic work schedule does not often permit me time to visit temples, but my conversations with God don't depend on idol worship. Inside my heart, I have developed and sustained a direct communication with Him.

I was raised Presbyterian, but I'm not really going to church. I think the experience in meditation is pretty much where it's at for me.

You don't necessarily have to be religious to pray.

Prayer is where the action is.

Prayer is the most important thing that I do.

I am a very spiritual person: I could say a Catholic with a strong underpinning of Zen.

It's really important to me to pray.

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

[Prayer] takes no time, but it occupies all our time.

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.

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

Prayer does not demand that we interrupt our work, but that we continue working as if it were a prayer.

The beginning of prayer is silence.

Prayer should not be merely an act, but an attitude of life.

No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.

Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.

At the heart of silence is prayer. At the heart of prayer is faith. At the heart of faith is life. At the heart of life is service.