Contributed by John Sears on Nov 29, 2011
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SILENCE
There is a game my parents used to play when we were on road long road trips in the car. The rules of the game went something like this. "The first one to talk loses." We called it the silence game. Have you ever played the game? I would bet that just about every parent has made up a game
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Christian Church
Contributed by Peter Loughman on Dec 28, 2008
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COMPLETE SILENCE
In college, one of the jobs I had was working in a medical file warehouse. Talk about mundane, boring, monotonous. These were huge warehouses that contained millions of files from hospitals all over the San Francisco Bay Area. I did one of three things: I pulled a file for a
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Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Carl Greene on Feb 15, 2009
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CHILDREN ON SILENCE
Author Kathleen Norris used to play a game with elementary-school children in which she would make a deal with them. "First you get to make noise," she would bargain, "and then you’ll make silence."
The time of noise was always predictably chaotic -- shouting, pounding and
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Methodist
They say silence is golden – but is it possible that too much silence is not such a good thing? There’s a room in the United States that’s so quiet it becomes unbearable after a short time. The longest anyone has survived in the ‘anechoic chamber’ at Orfield Laboratories in South Minneapolis is
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Baptist
Contributed by Matt Neace on Sep 22, 2018
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In their song The Sound of Silence, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel sing the words, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and the tenement halls and whispered in the sounds of silence." But their friendship has come to replicate the sound of silence.
Paul Simon gave his final
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Baptist
Contributed by Donnie Martin on Dec 31, 2008
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Vow of Silence
A monk joined a monastery and took a vow of silence. After the first ten years his superior called him in and asked, "Do you have anything to say?" The monk replied, "Food bad."
After another ten years, the monk again had opportunity to voice his thoughts. He said, "Bed
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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Silence is always part of great music. Silence is always part of great art. Silence
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"If silence is golden, then speech is platinum. It spreads wisdom, dispels ignorance, ventilates grievances, stimulates curiosity, lightens the spirits
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Contributed by Jim Kane on Jan 6, 2008
The sound of silence can be troubling and unnerving. But the sound of silence is also necessary for our faith and confidence in Christ to grow and help us truly live for the Lord despite our circumstances. Let
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Church Of God
THE JOY OF HER SILENCE
Listen to this case history that appears in Dr. Paul Tournier's book, "The Strong and the Weak." It is the story of a family in which there were father, mother and several children. The father had a problem with one of his daughters, a little girl who was very quiet, very
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*other
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Jesus made a habit of withdrawing to "the Hills" or "a lonely place" or "the wilderness" or "a high mountain" or the Garden of Gethsemane. He went to these places before he chose his disciples, after he heard of his cousin John's beheading, after feeding the 5000, after healing a leper, for the
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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"Today, listening is obsolete. So is silence. Each person travels alone in a small
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