“No prophet ever encountered God without withdrawing into solitude and silence. Moses, Elijah, and John the Baptist encountered God in the great silence of the desert. Today, too, monks seek God in solitude and silence. I am speaking, not just about geographical solitude or movement, but about an interior state. It is not enough to be quiet, either. It is necessary to become silence. For, even before the desert, the solitude and the silence, God is already in man. The true desert is within us, in our soul. Strengthened with this knowledge, we can understand how silence is indispensable if we are to find God. The Father waits for his children in their own hearts.”

“True solitude is in the soul. The soul has as its desert and homeland God Himself, the father and teacher of all souls”

“There is no companion like solitude. One who knows how to tune himself to the inner silence, even in the midst of the din and roar of the marketplace, enjoys a most recreative solitude.”

“We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and privacy: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.”

“her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.”

“It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again.”

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

“Like dry ground welcoming the rain, he let the solitude, silence, and loneliness soak in.”

“Life is the desert, life the solitude;
Death joins us to the great majority.”

“God is the silence of the universe, and man is the cry that gives meaning to that silence.”