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Quotes about Contemplation

Being a Christian then is more about celebrating mystery than conquering it.
- Rob Bell
We're engaged more than ever by the possibilities of soul and spirit, and by the nagging suspicion that all of this may not be a grand accident after all; but God, an increasing number of people are asking—what does God have to do with that?
- Rob Bell
Sabbath forces you to listen to your life. Sabbath is a day when you are fully present to your pain, your stress, your worry, your fear. Sabbath is when you let whatever you've pushed down rise to the surface. Sabbath is a day when things that are broken get fixed, when things within you that have torn are mended.
- Rob Bell
There ought to be a view around the world From such a mountain
- Robert Frost
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
- Vincent Van Gogh
I have found, after a good deal of consideration, that the best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him here.
- George Bernard Shaw
The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.
- Teresa of Avila
Tell yourself right now and throughout today, that it's okay to draw away from the maddening crowd. Jesus did; so can you.
- Charles Swindoll
Religion is life, philosophy is thought; religion looks up, friendship looks in. We need both thought and life, and we need that the two shall be in harmony.
- James Freeman Clarke
Theology is only thought applied to religion.
- GK Chesterton
Let me be one of the upward and outward lookers, not one of the downward and inward lookers.
- Alfred Edersheim
No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'
- CS Lewis