Christian Mystic Quotes on Silence
I am silently lost in God.
Prayer is the laying aside of thoughts.
In the throne of silence are manifest the perfections of spiritual beauty.
Become a fertile ground for the divine birth. Cherish this deep silence within, nourish it
It is best to learn to silence the faculties and to cause them to be still so that God may speak.
God's greatest content and glory is to see the Soul in silence, desirous, humble, quiet, and resigned.
If you could be silent from all willing and thinking for one hour, you would hear God's inexpressible words.
When you move silently, then you are that which God was before nature and creature, out of which He created your nature and creature.
The very pure spirit does not bother about the regard of others or human respect, but communes inwardly with God, alone and in solitude as to all forms, and with delightful tranquility, for the knowledge of God is received in divine silence.
Finally, be of hope, suffer, be silent, and patient: let nothing affright thee: all of it will have an time to end: God only is he that is unchangeable: patience brings a man in every thing. He that hath God, hath all things; and he that hath him not, hath nothing.
Seek silence in the midst of the tumult, seek solitude in the masses, light in the midst of darkness; find forgetfulness in injury, victory in the midst of despondence, and courage in the midst of alarm, resistance in the midst of temptation, peace in the midst of war.
In this state of Resurrection comes that ineffable silence, by which we not only subsist in God, but commune with Him, and which, in a Soul thus dead to its own working, and general and fundamental Self-appropriation, becomes a flux and reflux of Divine Communion, with nothing to sully its purity; for there is nothing to hinder it.
O how few are the Souls, that attain to this perfect way of Praying, because they penetrate not enough into this internal recollection, and Mystical Silence, and because they strip not themselves of imperfect reflection, and sensible pleasure! O that thy Soul, without thoughtful advertency, even of it self, might give it self in Prey to that holy and spiritual Tranquility.
So you must be silent.
Then God will be born in you,
utter his word in you and you shall hear it;
but be very sure that if
you speak the word will have to be silent.
If you go out, he will most surely come in;
as much as you go out for him
He will come in to you; no more, no less….
Quotes by Christian Mystics
- Jesus (1th Century) »
- Origen (185 - 254) »
- Gregory of Nyssa (335 - 395) »
- Evagrius Ponticus (345 - 399) »
- Hildegard of Bingen (1098 - 1179) »
- St. Francis of Assisi (d. 1226) »
- Mechthild of Magdeburg (1210 - 1282) »
- Meister Eckhart (1260 - 1328) »
- Walter Hilton (1345 - 1396) »
- Julian of Norwich (1342 - 1416) »
- St. Catherine of Genoa (1447 - 1510) »
- St. Teresa of Avila (1515 - 1582) »
- John of the Cross (1542 - 1591) »
- Jakob Böhme (1575 - 1624) »
- Angelus Silesius (1624 - 1677) »
- Brother Lawrence (1614 - 1691) »
- Miguel de Molinos (1628 - 1696) »
- Jeanne Guyon (1648 - 1717) »
- Thérèse of Lisieux (1873 - 1897) »
- Simone Weil (1909 - 1943) »
