Quotes about Contemplation
The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.
— Marcus Aurelius
Our religious activities should be ordered in such a way as to have plenty of time for the cultivation of the fruits of solitude and silence.
— AW Tozer
I don't have time for a job that doesn't leave me time to be quiet or still or to pray.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
There was no time anymore to be quiet or still or pray. So, in many ways, that's what led to my downward spin.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Do not read to satisfy curiosity or to pass the time, but study such things as move your heart to devotion.
— Thomas a Kempis
Take time to be quiet.
— Zig Ziglar
You need to have time to really hear God.
— Karen Kingsbury
The spiritual journey has to do with learning to think more deeply and take as long a time as we need. That's the path to wisdom.
— Marianne Williamson
I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else.
— Mark Twain
It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.
— Mark Twain
It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky, up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made, or only just happened- Jim he allowed they was made, but I allowed they happened; I judged it would have took too long to make so many.
— Mark Twain
I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.
— Mark Twain