words of wisdom

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool … than to speak out and remove all doubt.- Abraham Lincoln

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature — trees flowers, grass — grows in silence; see the stars, the moon, and the sun, how they move in silence. — Mother Teresa

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. — George Eliot

Silence is not a thing we make; it is something into which we enter. It is always there … All we can make is noise. — Mother Maribel of Wantage