Silence is the language of God. All else is poor translation.
03407 – Silence: Language of God
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03389 – The Moment Before it Happens
In the silence of a midwinter dusk, there is a sound so faint that for all you can tell it may be only the sound of the silence itself. You hold your breath to listen. You are aware of the beating of your heart. The extraordinary thing that is about to happen is...
03253 – Solitude = Fount of Healing
Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.
03060 – Swim in Silence
I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in silence, and the truth comes to me.
02826 – Lord, Deliver Me
Lord, deliver me from the urge to open my mouth when I should shut it. Give me the wisdom to keep silence where silence is wise. Remind me that not everything needs to be said, and that there are very few things that need to be said by me.
02741 – God’s Silence
Every year, Holy Saturday hits me hard with the memory that the silence of God isn’t the absence of God.
02612 – The Middle: Crucial Part of the Story
When we tell stories that start with a sudden beginning and jump to an ending that only God could write, we skip over a crucial part of the story: the middle. The place where we wait. Where we sit in silence. Where we have no answers. Where our hearts ache and we...
02450 – A Story of Survival
Angel, a Jew, owner of the most famous bakery in Germany, often said: "Do you know why I'm alive today? I was still a teenager when Nazis in Germany killed Jews mercilessly. Nazis took us to Auschwitz by train. Last night in the ward was deadly cold. We were left for...
02432 – The Ultimate Tragedy
The ultimate tragedy is not the cruelty and oppression by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
02244 – Silence & God
In silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.