Pope Francis Quotes

Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness

Listen to the sound of silence.

When I am liberated by silence, when I am no longer involved in the measurement of life, but in the living of it, I can discover a form of prayer in which there is effectively no distraction. My whole life becomes a prayer. My whole silence is full of prayer. The world of silence in which I am immersed contributes to my prayer.

Take time to be quiet.

Silence has a regenerative power of its own. It is always sacred. It always returns you home.

The beginning of prayer is silence.

The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.

I don't meditate. Silence is golden though.

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

Let us allow ourselves to be 'infected' by St. Joseph's silence! We need it greatly, in a world that is often too noisy, that does not favor meditation or listening to the voice of God.

There are two things you can do with your head down - play golf and pray.

Let us accept the invitation, ever-open, from the Stillness, taste its exquisite sweetness, and heed its silent instruction.

Silence does good to the soul.

Never underestimate the power of sitting quietly.

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

I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.

Through the portals of silence the healing sun of wisdom and peace will shine upon you.

Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.

Real action is in silent moments.

There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

I feel that I need to return to the pure stillness periodically. And then, when the teaching happens, just allow it to arise out of the stillness. So the teaching and stillness are very closely connected. The teaching arises out of the stillness. But when I'm alone, there's only the stillness, and that is my favorite place.

We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all we succeed in doing is destroying all hope of tranquility. ... . You have to learn to immerse yourself in the silences between.

If I were a physician, and if I were allowed to prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence. For even if the Word of God were proclaimed in the modern world, how could one hear it with so much noise? Therefore, create silence.

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.

Stop, stop. Do not speak. The ultimate truth is not even to think.