Quotes about Contemplation

People who don't think shouldn't talk.

I wish I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only knew how to begin.

thought Alice, "without pictures or conversation?" So she was considering, in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her. There was nothing

Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what

This question the Dodo could not answer without a great deal of thought, and it stood for a long time with one finger pressed upon its forehead (the position in which you usually see Shakespeare, in the pictures of him), while the rest waited in silence.

It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.

Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.

Contemplation is nothing else but a secret, peaceful, and loving infusion of God, which, if admitted, will set the soul on fire with the Spirit of love.

Remember God more often than you breathe.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.

Without solitude it is virtually impossible to live a spiritual life. ...We do not take the spiritual life seriously if we do not set aside some time to be with God and listen to him.