Silence Of The Heart Quotes

• Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.

  C. S. Lewis

  Hurt, Heart, Silence

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  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... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

  Mother Teresa

  God, Nature, Stars

  1975 A Gift for God,'Willing Slaves to theWill of God'.

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• There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives - the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Mother, Pain

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• We need silence to be able to touch souls.

  Mother Teresa

  Nature, Stars, Moon

  1975 A Gift for God,'Willing Slaves to theWill of God'.

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• We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.

  Mother Teresa

  Nature, Stars, Silence

  1975 A Gift for God,'Willing Slaves to theWill of God'.

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• Speak tenderly; let there be kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile, in the warmth of your greeting. Always have a cheerful smile. Don't only give your care, but give your heart as well.

  Mother Teresa

  Kindness, Eye, Heart

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• It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself.

  Mother Teresa

  Emptiness, Realizing, Nothingness

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.8, New World Library

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• True forgiveness and love arise naturally, effortlessly, from the silence of the heart broken all the way open.

  Gangaji

  Heart, Broken, Silence

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• God speaks in the silence of the heart, and we listen. And then we speak to God from the fullness of our heart, and God listens. And this listening and this speaking is what prayer is meant to be.

  Mother Teresa

  Faith, Prayer, Inspiration

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• The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Heart, Silence, Mind

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.149, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Broken Heart, Silence, Troubled Relationship

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• Souls of prayer are souls of great silence

  Mother Teresa

  Prayer, Silence, Soul

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.8, New World Library

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• God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.

  Mother Teresa

  Prayer, Heart, Hunger For Love

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• There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives--the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them. ---Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart. Speak tenderly to them. Let there be kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile, in the warmth of your greeting. Always have a cheerful smile. Don't only give your care, but give your heart as well.

  Mother Teresa

  Pain, Kindness, Loneliness

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• The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Heart, Silence, Broken Promises

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.73, The Floating Press

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• The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Heart, Silence, Mind

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.149, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Serving the Truth becomes our life instead of just an isolated event. It takes the abstractness out of spirituality. That's the opportunity of real spirituality: to be in service to the silence of the heart.

  Adyashanti

  Real, Heart, Opportunity

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• Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking! ... I begin to feel, think, and be myself again. Instead of an awkward silence, broken by attempts at wit or dull common-places, mine is that undisturbed silence of the heart which alone is perfect eloquence.

  William Hazlitt

  Heart, Thinking, Blue

  William Hazlitt (1871). “Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners”, p.250

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• God speaks in the silence of the heart.

  Mother Teresa

  Heart, Hunger For Love, Silence

  Mother Teresa (1993). “The Best Gift is Love: Meditations”, Servant Books

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• We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the whole time. Your treasure--your perfection--is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the buy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Heart, Perfection, Silence

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• If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

  T. S. Eliot

  Heart, Silence, Firsts

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• In the silence of the heart God speaks. 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.

  Mother Teresa

  Prayer, Heart, Silence

  Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I always begin my prayer in silence, for it is in the silence of the heart that God speaks. God is the friend of silence-we need to listen to God because it's not what we say but what He says to us and through us that matters.

  Mother Teresa

  Prayer, Heart, Silence

  Mother Teresa (1995). “A Simple Path-Open Market”

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• Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Heart, Hunger For Love

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• The beginning of prayer is silence. If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks. And to be able to see that silence, to be able to hear God we need a clean heart; for a clean heart can see God, can hear God, can listen to God; and then only from the fullness of our heart can we speak to God. But we cannot speak unless we have listened, unless we have made that connection with God in the silence of our heart.

  Mother Teresa

  Prayer, Heart, Silence

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