Quotes about Contemplation
Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
- Joseph Addison
A contemplation of God's works, a generous concern for the good of mankind, and the unfeigned exercise of humility only, denominate men great and glorious.
- Joseph Addison
Seek not abroad, for in the inner man dwells the truth.
- St. Augustine
Let us think less of men and more of God.
- Philip James Bailey
Were we able to extract from any man a complete answer to the question, "What comes into your mind when you think about God?" we might predict with certainty the future of that man.
- AW Tozer
What is essential in the life of a man of my kind is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does or suffers.
- Albert Einstein
Man is the matter of the cosmos, contemplating itself.
- Carl Sagan
What is the real breath of a man — the breathing out or the breathing in?
- Margaret Atwood
The man, who has begun to live more seriously within, begins to live more simply without.
- Phillips Brooks
But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson