Quotes about Contemplation
Doing fine. Watching shadows on the wall.
— John Lennon
The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
— Erica Jong
In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.
— Thomas Merton
I swear I will never henceforth have to do with the faith that tells the best! I will have to do only with that faith that leaves the best untold.
— Walt Whitman
The key that opens the door to the faith is prayer.
— Pope Francis
Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.
— Wendell Berry
Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Solitude sometimes is the best society.
— John Milton
Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.
— John Milton
Earth's crammed with Heaven, And every common bush afire with God, But only he who sees takes off his shoes — The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.
— John Ortberg
Think greatly of the greatness of God.
— John Owen