Guftagu #1133 - Page 2

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

The truth hurts, but silence kills.

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.

Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.

It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.