One of the most obvious characteristics of our daily lives is that we are busy. We experience our days as filled with things to do, people to meet, projects to finish, letters to write, calls to make, and appointments to keep. Our lives often seem like over-packed suitcases bursting at the seams. In fact, we are almost always aware of being behind schedule. There is a nagging sense that there are unfinished tasks, unfulfilled promises, unrealised proposals. There is always something else that we should have remembered, done, or said. There are always people we did not speak to, write to, or visit. Thus, although we are very busy, we also have a lingering feeling of never really fulfilling our obligation.
– Henri Nouwen – An Invitation to the Spiritual Life

We need to find God, and God 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.
– Blessed Mother Teresa

What we need most in order to make progress is to be silent before this great God with our appetite and with our tongue, for the language God best hears is silent love.
– St John of the Cross, OCD

If there is to be peace between neighbours, there must be peace in the home. If there is to be peace in the home, there must be peace in the heart. – John Paul II