Quotes about Contemplation

The believer alone will be able to hear the call. It comes from beyond ourselves, beyond our society, beyond the climate of opinion and prejudice and rebellion and skepticism in which we live, and beyond our time and taste. It draws toward the center of all things, that still place of which T.S. Eliot wrote : Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled About the centre of the silent Word.

The best beauty treatment of all is time spent quietly before the Lord.

Whatsoever things are true...think on these things.

Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments.

To contemplate is to look at shadows.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

Sometimes I've sat outside, not to tan, but as a result of that I ended up tanning slightly.

You focus your attention on a single truth from the Bible and then continue to think about it throughout your day.

Being a Christian then is more about celebrating mystery than conquering it.

We're engaged more than ever by the possibilities of soul and spirit, and by the nagging suspicion that all of this may not be a grand accident after all; but God, an increasing number of people are asking—what does God have to do with that?