Silence itself, of course, has no magic. It may be just sheer emptiness, absence of words or noise or music. It may be an occasion for slumber, or it may be a dead form. But it may also be an intensified pause, a vitalised hush, a creative quiet, an actual moment of mutual and reciprocal correspondence with God.
— Rufus Jones, The Doubleday Christian Quotation Collection by Hannah Ward, editor, Jennifer Wild, editor