Quotes about Contemplation
Quiet, deep breath after any prayer is another form of Amen.
- Anne Lamott
Frequently the burden or concern in the spirit is for prayer.
- Watchman Nee
Prayer is the supreme instance of the hidden character of the Christian life.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Somewhere we know that without silence, words lose their meaning.
- Henri Nouwen
Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness.
- Thomas Merton
Sometimes the most intelligent thing is not to do anything, certainly nothing loaded with the imbecility of emotionality.
- William Saroyan
Religion is what you do with your solitude.
- William Temple
Your religion is what you do with your solitude.
- William Temple
In the calmness of the morning before the mind is heated and weary by the turmoil of the day, you have a season of unusual importance for communing with God and with yourself.
- William Wilberforce
To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
- William Wordsworth
But hushed be every thought that springsFrom out the bitterness of things.
- William Wordsworth