Quotes about Contemplation

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.

Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.

What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it.

Make it a part of every day's business to read and meditate on some portion of God's Word. Private means of grace are just as needful every day for our souls as food and clothing are for our bodies.

The value you receive from reflective thinking will depend on the kinds of questions you ask yourself.

My television is the tabernacle.

There is ecstasy in paying attention. You can get into a kind of Wordsworthian openness to the world, where you see in everything the essence of holiness.

Life consists of what man is thinking about all day.

Contemplative prayer is a discipline that enables our developing relationship with Jesus Christ to reach stages of growth in union with God.

We don't want reactions. We don't want first impressions. We don't want knee-jerks. We want considered feedback. Read it over. Read it twice, three times even. Sleep on it. Take your time to gather and present your thoughts—just like the person who pitched the original idea took their time to gather and present theirs.