Quotes about Contemplation
For the one who has learned to regard God in everything he does is at the same time being drawn away from every vain thought.
— John Calvin
And, as Augustine expresses it (in Psalm cxliv.), since we are unable to comprehend Him, and are, as it were, overpowered by his greatness, our proper course is to contemplate his works, and
— John Calvin
Since I am coming to that holy room,Where, with thy choir of saints forevermore,I shall be made thy music; as I comeI tune the instrument here at the door,And what I must do then, think here before.
— John Donne
I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in and invite God and his angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
— John Donne
Perchance, he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as that he knows not it tolls for him...
— John Donne
As a general remark, I would say we must move from the moral to the mystical life.
— Henri Nouwen
I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.
— Henry David Thoreau
To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
— Oscar Wilde
Thought is the seed of action.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Come, blessed barrier between day and day, Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health!
— William Wordsworth
How important is a constant intercourse with nature and the contemplation of natural phenomena to the preservation of moral and intellectual health!
— Henry David Thoreau
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
— Lily Tomlin