Quotes about Contemplation
Sometimes I wake up before dawn, and I love sitting up in the middle of the bed with all the lights off, pitch-black dark, and talking to the Father, with no interruptions and nothing that reminds me that there's anything in life but me and Him.
- Charles Swindoll
Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prayer that craves a particular commodity—anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness. It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness. As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those most sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the woods, we return to reason and faith.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing divine dies. All good is eternally reproductive. The beauty of nature reforms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation, but for new creation.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Of that ineffable essence which we call Spirit, he that thinks most, will say least.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I see the spectacle of morning from the hill-top over against my house, from day-break to sun-rise, with emotions which an angel might share
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ancestor of every action is a thought. Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a person is constantly reading and absorbing the thoughts of others, their growth will be stunted. In order to fully develop, we need periods of solitude, self-inquiry, and recovery.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson