Quotes about Contemplate

Know therefore this day and take to heart that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth below; there is no other.

Within Your temple, O God, we contemplate Your loving devotion.

Joy is a quiet gladness of heart as one contemplates the goodness of God's saving grace in Christ Jesus.

When all else fail, philosophize.

It's better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

Like one waking from a dream, so You, O Lord, awaken and despise their form.

I find it most intriguing to contemplate the fact that while men are considering what place to give Jesus Christ in history, He has already decided what place to give them in eternity.

Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.

God saw that a Sabbath was essential for man, even in Paradise. He needed to lay aside his own interests and pursuits for one day of the seven, that he might more fully contemplate the works of God and meditate upon his power and goodness. He needed a Sabbath to remind him more vividly of God and to awaken gratitude because all that he enjoyed and possessed came from the beneficent hand of the Creator.

It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.

Here we have another instance of an Old Testament law finding its truest fulfilment in the crucified body of Jesus Christ. As they contemplate this body which was given for them, and as they share its life, the disciples receive strength for the chastity which Jesus requires.

Just as it is better to illuminate than merely to shine, so to pass on what one has contemplated is better than merely to contemplate.