Quotes about Contemplation
I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
The more we read God's truths and let truth fill our minds, the less time we'll spend contemplating untruths.
— Lysa TerKeurst
We must slow down to a human tempo and we'll begin to have time to listen.
— Thomas Merton
Take more time, cover less ground.
— Thomas Merton
The first step in faith is to stop thinking about God at the time of prayer.
— Brennan Manning
Limit time to the present. Meditate upon your last hour.
— Marcus Aurelius
If you want to know anything about community, you have to realize that the contemplative side is essential. Community without retreating and quiet time never survives.
— Henri Nouwen
Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a fig, and as to time the turning of a gimlet .
— Marcus Aurelius
God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. The man who would know God must give time to Him.
— AW Tozer
"We don't take sufficient time to meditate." I get up early in the morning...five o'clock, when my mind and spirit are clear and rested. Then I meditate.
— David O. McKay
One of the most convicting things I have recently come to realize about Jesus is that He was never, not once, in a hurry.
— Mark Buchanan
Silence is the room we create for the searching of God, where we hear His voice and follow.
— Mark Buchanan