Quotes about Contemplation

Six days a week the spirit is alone, disregarded, forsaken, forgotten.

There are three starting points of contemplation about God; three trails that lead to Him. The first is the way of sensing the presence of God in the world, in things; the second is the way of sensing His presence in the Bible; the third is the way of sensing His presence in sacred deeds.

He who wishes to ponder what is beyond the Bible must first learn to be sensitive to what is within the Bible.

Philosophy of religion is involved in a polarity; like an ellipse it revolves around two foci: philosophy and religion.

Two sources of religious thinking are given us: memory (tradition) and personal insight. We must rely on our memory and we must strive for fresh insight.

The role of religion is to be a challenge to philosophy, not merely an object for examination.

In the good days remember also death.

We need long train journeys on which we have no wireless signal.

Reading is on the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it: it does not constitute it.

Remember, when you're reading your Bible, your Bible is also reading you." It is a two-way transaction.

For we cannot speak of the beginning; where the beginning begins our thinking stops, it comes to an end.

Ascension joy—inwardly we must become very quiet to hear the soft sound of this phrase at all. Joy lives in its quietness and incomprehensibility. This joy is in fact incomprehensible, for the comprehensible never makes for joy.