Quotes about Contemplation

most of our human problems come because we don't know how to sit still in our room for an hour. — Leighton Ford

We take things at face value, don't we? You form an opinion about something immediately, but you ought to step back a bit. Take in the vista first.

I actually like being alone. I spend most evenings reading and taking long baths.

You can think of concentration as the capacity of the mind to sustain an unwavering attention on one object of observation.

Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.

Willed introversion, in fact, is one of the classic implements of creative genius and can be employed as a deliberate device.

For then alone do we know God truly," writes Saint Thomas Aquinas, "when we believe that He is far above all that man can possibly think of God."[33] And

She also considered very seriously what she would look like in a little cottage in the middle of the forest, dressed in a melancholy gray and holding communion only with the birds and trees; a life of retirement away from the vain world; a life into which no man came. It had its attractions, but she decided that gray did not suit her.

And I'd say to myself as I looked so lazily down at the sea: "There's nobody else in the world, and the world was made for me.

What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.

Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.