"The silence of God is different from that of [humans]. When Jesus lay silent and asleep in the ship, He was more kind and His arm was more near to help and more certain than the anxious cry of the doubting disciples suggests. The silence of God and of Jesus is not of indifference. It is the silence of higher thoughts. God is fitting stone to stone in His plan for the world and our lives, even though we can see only a confused and menaingless jumble of stones heaped together under a silent heaven."

--Helmut Thielicke (quoted in When the Soul Listens).