Quotes about Quiet Contemplation
If you want to know anything about community, you have to realize that the contemplative side is essential. Community without retreating and quiet time never survives.
— Henri Nouwen
Silence is the room we create for the searching of God, where we hear His voice and follow.
— Mark Buchanan
Busy? The word loses all meaning under the canopy of this sky.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Be still and know that I am God.
— Sarah Young
be still, and know that I am God. However, this timeless truth is essential for the well-being of your soul. As dew refreshes grass and
— Sarah Young
I would say to today's young minister, 'Be not afraid to give much time to solitary walks and meditation'.
— Vance Havner
Take time to be quiet.
— Zig Ziglar
I have hardly had time to think over all that you have told me. It's a big thing for a man to have to understand and to decide at one sitting. I should like to have a quiet hour by myself to make up my mind.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
How do we wait? The Bible says very clearly that we are to be still.
— Benny Hinn
Occasionally she looked at Anne, seemed on the point of saying something, then shook her head and buttoned up her mouth.
— LM Montgomery
Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
— AA Milne
Ascension joy—inwardly we must become very quiet to hear the soft sound of this phrase at all. Joy lives in its quietness and incomprehensibility. This joy is in fact incomprehensible, for the comprehensible never makes for joy.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer