Quotes about Contemplation
If we have learned to be silent before the Word, we will also learn to manage our silence and our speech during the day.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Before the heart unlocks itself for the world, God wants to open it for himself; before the ear takes in the countless voices of the day, it should hear in the early hours the voice of the Creator and Redeemer. God prepared the stillness of the first morning for himself. It should remain his.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
To be silent does not mean to be inactive; rather it means to breathe in the will of God, to listen attentively and be ready to obey.4 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Meditating on the Word.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Sit and reflect on life itself and you would discover that nothing happens by chance.
— TB Joshua
The life of a Christian is wondrously ruled in this world, by the consideration and meditation of the life of another world.
— Richard Sibbes
One single day of devotion is worth more than a thousand years of worldly life.
— Francis de Sales
Sabbath is the celebration of life beyond and outside productivity.
— Walter Brueggemann
I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.
— Albert Camus
You live life looking forward, you understand life looking backward.
— Soren Kierkegaard
although I love a rich life, I hate an overcrowded life. I believe in rumination and lose half the beauty of all things when I am deprived of the time to ruminate.
— Anais Nin
Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Is the ambient noise level of my life low enough for me to hear the whispers of the Lord?
— Bill Hybels