Quoting from Thomas Merton
Dialogues With Silence
The true contemplative is not one who prepares his mind for a particular message that he wants or expects to hear, but is one who remains empty because he knows that he can never expect to anticipate the words that will transform his darkness into light. He does not even anticipate a special kind of transformation. He does not demand light instead of darkness. He waits on the Word of God in silence, and, when he is answered it is not so much by a word that bursts into his silence. It is by his silence itself, suddenly, inexplicably revealing itself to him as a word of great power, full of the voice of God. (17)


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STEPHEN HARPER
My dad has kind of been the standard for me, he played 16 years in the league, and since I've be...
STEPHEN CURRY
I might be in an airport, late or angry with a ticket person, and I'm going to sort of check mys...
STEPHEN COLLINS
I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner...
STEPHEN FRY
Growing up, it was about finding a way to entertain myself outdoors. We spent all the summers on the...
STEPHEN COLLETTI
Ultimately, the question of campaign contributions will be decided by the public.
STEPHEN BREYER
Guatemala's ornate presidential palace, once a terrifying fortress whose every corridor was patr...
STEPHEN KINZER
secrets are a problem, maybe the biggest problem of all. They weigh on the mind and take up space in...
STEPHEN KING
Wanting to know things and do things is what the human race is all about. Exploration, Gwendy! Both ...
STEPHEN KING
We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.
STEPHEN COVEY
Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative an...
STEPHEN COVEY
I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM
I directed 24's pilot. I felt we should follow the characters around as if we were a documentary...
STEPHEN HOPKINS
I think because we're such a trading nation, I think Canadians understand that first and foremos...
STEPHEN HARPER
I remember that Martin Hannett once had an idea of making a record and burying it in his garden so t...
STEPHEN MORRIS
As publishers focus on blockbusters, they steadily lose interest in little-known authors from other ...
STEPHEN KINZER
It used to be you did TV or you did film. Now it's like a media blitz.
STEPHEN DORFF
Successive American presidents have turned a blind eye to piles of evidence that Saudi money is bein...
STEPHEN KINZER
There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literatu...
STEPHEN STILLS
Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
STEPHEN LEACOCK
Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he ...
STEPHEN AMBROSE
I'm your full blown charismatic evangelical freak daddy.
STEPHEN BALDWIN
My African heritage is a part of reggae music roots, and the concept is that the album, 'Revelat...
STEPHEN MARLEY
Bob Marley songs are my songs. These are the songs that have been passed on to me. Let me say, I wea...
STEPHEN MARLEY
All the evidence shows that God was actually quite a gambler, and the universe is a great casino, wh...
STEPHEN HAWKING
A lot of my comic influences are distinctly American: Woody Allen and Bob Hope, for example. They we...
STEPHEN MERCHANT
Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl.
STEPHEN LEACOCK
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and...
STEPHEN LEACOCK
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
STEPHEN LEACOCK
A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carrie...
STEPHEN LEACOCK
I am, in fact, Superman. Every morning I wake up and go into a telephone booth and change my costume...
STEPHEN DALDRY
In the media age, everybody was famous for 15 minutes. In the Wikipedia age, everybody can be an exp...
STEPHEN COLBERT
The first Bond movie I saw at cinemas was 'For Your Eyes Only' when I was almost 10. I got i...
STEPHEN COLE
Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go s...
STEPHEN VIZINCZEY
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
STEPHEN LEACOCK
As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mo...
STEPHEN GRAHAM
Basketball is booming, and it's not just an Under Armour standpoint: it's about the game its...
STEPHEN CURRY
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot...re...
STEPHEN KING
I'm a Jewish born-again Christian.
STEPHEN BALDWIN
The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organiz...
STEPHEN COVEY
Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
STEPHEN FRY
And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're i...
STEPHEN KING
Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.
STEPHEN KING
Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time.
STEPHEN SWID
Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
STEPHEN LEACOCK
He was a clot looking for a place to happen, a splinter of bone hunting a soft organ to puncture, a ...
STEPHEN KING
Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is ...
STEPHEN HAWKING
After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed ...
STEPHEN KING