Quotes About Deep Contemplation

I give people a space to simply sit in silence and communicate with me deeply but non-verbally.

— Marina Abramovic

Of that ineffable essence which we call Spirit, he that thinks most, will say least.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“When all these things come upon you—the blessings and curses I have set before you—and you call them to mind in all the nations to which the LORD your God has banished you,

— Deuteronomy 30:1

We must seek, in studying God, to be led to God.

— JI Packer

The cursing that he loved, may it fall on him; the blessing in which he refused to delight, may it be far from him.

— Psalm 109:17

I considered the days of old, the years long in the past.

— Psalm 77:5

What can God have that gives him greater satisfaction than that a thousand times a day all his creatures should thus pause to withdraw and worship him in the heart.

— Brother Lawrence

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

— Lily Tomlin

I believe the contemplative mind is the mind of Christ.

— Fr. Richard Rohr

Meditation is one of the ways in which the spiritual man keeps himself awake.

— Thomas Merton

Prayer is listening.

— Soren Kierkegaard