Silence reminds us that we have only to be still and let the waters of grace refresh us and the sunlight of peace shine upon us.
~ S. Wendy Beckett
For, to love another is to address to that person the most powerful and imperious form of appeal. It is to stir up in his or her depths a silent and hidden person forced to emerge in response to our voice, so new that even its owner did not know it, yet so true that he or she cannot fail to recognize it, even though seeing it for the first time.