At a monastery high in the mountains, the monks have a rigid vow of silence. Only at Christmas, and only by one monk, and only with one sentence, is the vow allowed to be broken. She who is silent consents. - French Proverb Silence is the virtue of fools. - Francis Bacon Silence if the eternal duty of man. - Thomas Carlyle Religion is the opiate of the masses. - Karl Marx Writing is a struggle against silence. - Carlos Fuentes Sound is our mind, silence is our being. - Osho Silence is a true friend who never betrays. - Confucius I like my men like I like my coffee. Silent. - Anna Kendrick All I want is blackness. Blackness and silence. - Sylvia Plath Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. - George Bernard Shaw Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer. - Muhammad Ali Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. - G K Chesterton Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self. - Anthony de Mello If silence be good for the wise, how much the better for fools. - Talmud To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. - Abraham Lincoln Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden, not silence. - Samuel Butler Silence is golden unless you have kids. Then silence is just suspicious. - Unknown Mail your packages early, so the Post Office can lose them in time for Christmas. - Johnny Carson My favourite characters in the Bible are King David, Delilah and Charlton Heston. - Milton Berle I'm a Catholic deer hunter. I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion. - Paul Ryan There is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question. - Thomas Merton If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rim shots during the vows. - Sam Kinison You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion. - Arthur Conan Doyle I definitely want my son Brooklyn christened, but I don't know into what religion yet. - David Beckham If 'ifs and buts' were 'candy and nuts', we'd have Christmas every day. - Unknown Within us is the soul of the whole, the wise silence, the universal beauty, the eternal One. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Religion is like a map. The route isn't important. It's the destination that matters. - Marianne Williamson If religion is to be treated with intellectual respect, then it must stand the test of truth. - Ravi Zacharias While those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more. - C S Lewis I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious. - Meghan O'Rourke He made us all one true religion, Edith, which he named after his son, Christian - or Christ, for short. - Archie Bunker Going to Church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. - Billy Sunday The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum. - Havelock Ellis The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence. - Paul Simon Silence is not silent. Silence speaks. It speaks most eloquently. Silence is not still. Silence leads. It leads most perfectly. - Sri Chinmoy We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship. - C S Lewis Silence is interesting. It can show confusion, indifference and sadness. But it can also show determination, confidence and caring. - Maxime Lagace Within each of us, there is silence. A silence as vast as the universe. And when we experience that silence, we remember who we are. - Gunilla Norris Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. - Robert F. Kennedy see also Christmas & Religious Sections Celebate or Celebrate? Friar Thumper Gambling Chips Greek Monk Monk On A Rope Monk’s Fish And Chip Stand Monk’s Story Silent Monks Singing Hallelujah Tiny Monks Voices In My Head |
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