Quotes about Contemplation
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.
- Henry David Thoreau
But perhaps a man is not required to bury himself.
- Henry David Thoreau
There are doubts, sir, which, if man have them, it is not man that can solve them.
- Herman Melville
Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.
- Johannes Tauler
Let man's soul be a sphere, and then, in this, The intelligence that moves, devotion is.
- John Donne
We ought to see the face of God every morning before we see the face of man.
- DL Moody
Every morning prepare your soul for a tranquil day.
- Francis de Sales
I have always been amazed at my contemporaries' lack of finesse, I whose soul writhed from morning to night, in the mere quest of itself.
- Samuel Beckett
A quiet morning with a loving God puts the events of the upcoming day into proper perspective.
- Janette Oke
You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.
- Mortimer Adler
There is a need for aloneness... for an actor.
- Marilyn Monroe