Thomas Keating Quotes

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

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.

God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.

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

If you are hungry to hear the voice of God, you will hear. To hear, you have to cut out all other things.

Religion is something that you need to do in silence.

Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.

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

Silence is the only language god speaks.

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.

Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of 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.

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

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

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.

If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.

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

I'm very spiritual.

I'm just not a religious person, not at all. I consider myself a spiritual person. I was always very drawn to Buddhism, Hinduism. I still meditate.

The mind is a great gift, but it has to be quieted down in order to feel, hear and see the presence of God.

I believe that meditation is the highest spiritual practice, the pathway to God.