The Contemplative Society

“Each one...has to be God’s microphone.” - Bishop Oscar Romero (Canonised 2019).

"Just as a flower unfolds in silence and its scent worships its Creator in silence, the interior soul must do likewise.” - Sister Marie-Aimée de Jésus OCD in The Twelve Degrees of Silence (P54).

"We must learn to speak according to our own inner truth, as far as we can perceive it. We must learn to say what we really mean in the depth of our souls, not what we think we are expected to say...” - Thomas Merton in Spiritual Direction & Meditation