Quotes about Contemplation

A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.

I try to remind myself not to go anywhere or do anything without asking for spiritual direction through prayer and meditation.

Worship is focus.

It keeps us ever mindful of life, how it streams by in an awful rush if one is not careful to stop and listen...and honestly see. (Main character Annie Zook)

Is the ambient noise level of my life low enough for me to hear the whispers of the Lord?

What's the solution? To meditate on the Word and give ourselves every opportunity to remember what is true.

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other.

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.

The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination.

So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.

I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.