God’s Silence:

The kings and dictators and the mighty of the world accomplish their works with great noise, with speeches and drums and loudspeakers and brass and the thunder of bombers. But God works in silence.

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A man who has embraced poverty offers up prayer that is pure, while a man who loves possessions prays to material images.

- Saint John Climacus