Quotes about Contemplation
Do not be content to skim through a chapter [of the Bible] merely to satisfy your conscience. Hide the Word of God in your heart.
— Billy Graham
Prayer should not be merely an act, but an attitude of life.
— Billy Graham
Nothing can calm our souls more or better prepare us for life's challenges than time spent alone with God.
— Billy Graham
The reason many... close their eyes while praying is to shut out the affairs of the world so that their minds can be completely concentrated on God... it certainly lends itself to the attitude of prayer.
— Billy Graham
Notwithstanding, in how many most petty and contemptible things is our curiosity daily tempted, and how often we give way, who can recount?
— St. Augustine
These philosophers, then, whom we see not undeservedly exalted above the rest in fame and glory, have seen that no material body is God, and therefore they have transcended all bodies in seeking for God.
— St. Augustine
For verses and poems I can turn to true food.
— St. Augustine
But I am unwilling to utter all that may occur to those who think of it, yet cannot be spoken without irreverence.
— St. Augustine
People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.
— St. Augustine
Believe me, you will find more lessons in the woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you what you cannot learn from masters.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
In things of beauty, he contemplated the One who is supremely beautiful, and, led by the footprints he found in creatures, he followed the Beloved everywhere
— St Bonaventure
Tear your heart away from everything else; then seek God and you will surely find him.
— Teresa of Avila