Noah’s Reviews > The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air: Three Godly Discourses > Status Update

"Something strange and wonderful happened to him: gradually, as he became more and more fervent in prayer, he had less and less to say, and finally he became entirely silent. He became silent. Indeed, he became what is, if possible, even more the opposite of talking than silence: he became a listener. He had thought that to pray is to talk; he learned that to pray is not only to keep silent, but to listen."