Quotes about Contemplation

Met de uiterste voorzichtigheid, maandenlang mogelijkheden tegen elkaar afwegend, bijna tot in het overdrevene toe langzaam, zo streng mogelijke maatstaven aanleggend, vatte hij zijn oordeel over een letter, een woord of een hele zin pas dan samen, wanneer hij van de onaantastbaarheid ervan zeker was.

Why do you pray? he asked me, after a moment. Why did I pray? A strange question. Why did I live? Why did I breathe?

The believer alone will be able to hear the call. It comes from beyond ourselves, beyond our society, beyond the climate of opinion and prejudice and rebellion and skepticism in which we live, and beyond our time and taste. It draws toward the center of all things, that still place of which T.S. Eliot wrote : Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled About the centre of the silent Word.

The best beauty treatment of all is time spent quietly before the Lord.

Whatsoever things are true...think on these things.

Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments.

To contemplate is to look at shadows.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

Sometimes I've sat outside, not to tan, but as a result of that I ended up tanning slightly.

You focus your attention on a single truth from the Bible and then continue to think about it throughout your day.