Quotes about Contemplation
Seek not abroad, for in the inner man dwells the truth.
— St. Augustine
Let us think less of men and more of God.
— Philip James Bailey
Were we able to extract from any man a complete answer to the question, "What comes into your mind when you think about God?" we might predict with certainty the future of that man.
— AW Tozer
What is essential in the life of a man of my kind is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does or suffers.
— Albert Einstein
Man is the matter of the cosmos, contemplating itself.
— Carl Sagan
What is the real breath of a man — the breathing out or the breathing in?
— Margaret Atwood
The man, who has begun to live more seriously within, begins to live more simply without.
— Phillips Brooks
But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.
— Henry David Thoreau