Meeting God in the Silence

 Max Picard

What many preachers say about the mystery of God is often lifeless and therefore ineffectual. What they say comes only from words jumbled up with many thousands of other words. It does not come from silence. 

But it is in silence that the first meeting between man and the Mystery of God is accomplished, and from silence the word also receives the power to become extraordinary as the Mystery of God is extraordinary. It then rises above the order of ordinary words just as the mystery of God rises above the ordinary routine of things. 

World of Silence