Quotes about Contemplation

The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.

God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.

George Müller once said, "I live in the spirit of prayer. I pray as I walk about, when I lie down and when I rise up.

In high school I was very much involved in poetry. You cannot read a poem quickly. There's too much going on there. There are rhythms and alliterations. You have to read poetry slow, slow, slow to absorb it all.

Look at everything through the lens of eternity. If you will do this, life will take on a different perspective.

Late on the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset, ..., there flashed upon my mind, unforeseen and unsought, the phrase "Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben" ("reverence for life").

Proceed calmly in life.

Think higher, feel deeper.

And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.

Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been a part of my Christianity at all.