“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 He best hears is silent love.”[i]
–Saint John of the Cross (1542 – 1591)
[i] Cross, St. John of the. “Sayings of Light and Love,” Translated by Kieran Kavanaugh and Otilio Rodriguez. In The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross, edited by Kieran Kavanaugh. Washington, D.C.: ICS Publications, 1991, 132.