Quotes about Contemplation

It takes endurance to get on your knees and stay there until God supernaturally ignites a fresh thought in your mind.

a person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration.

I would like my readers to close the cover at the end and say: Wow, I never thought of it like that before!

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Truth sees God, and wisdom contemplates God, and from these two comes a third, a holy and wonderful delight in God, who is love.

Any time we look at our Maker with love, our importance in our own eyes diminishes, and we are filled with awe and humility and love for others.

Whether we see God or only seek to see God, I believe we add to the Divine Essence when we simply fasten our minds and lives onto God.

Also in this He shewed me a little thing, the quantity of an hazel-nut, in the palm of my hand; and it was as round as a ball. I looked thereupon with eye of my understanding, and thought: What may this be? And it was answered generally thus: It is all that is made.

Also in this He shewed me a little thing, the quantity of an hazel-nut, in the palm of my hand; and it was as round as a ball. I looked thereupon with eye of my understanding, and thought: What may this be?

I look singularly to myself, I am right nought;

the beholding of Him, and generally of all His works. For they are full good; and all His doings are easy and sweet,

Lifting your eyes from the things of this world is an activity that must begin WHERE YOU ARE.