Quotes about Quiet Contemplation
although I love a rich life, I hate an overcrowded life. I believe in rumination and lose half the beauty of all things when I am deprived of the time to ruminate.
— Anais Nin
Is the ambient noise level of my life low enough for me to hear the whispers of the Lord?
— Bill Hybels
No. Have it here where it is quiet. You and your quiet, said Brett. What is it men feel about quiet? We like it, said the count. Like you like your noise, my dear.
— Ernest Hemingway
The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.
— Aldous Huxley
Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.
— Helen Keller
Far from the world I walk, and from all care.
— William Wordsworth
My own rule is to let everything alone.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.
— Alice Walker
Be still and know that I am God, said the Spirit within Hadassah. And so she obeyed, waiting upon him while laying her hopes bare.
— Francine Rivers
At the age of fifteen, he had already learned silence.
— Frank Herbert
Every one must have some solitary spot where he can be alone with his God.
— Andrew Murray
Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
— Vernon Howard