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Quotes about Contemplation

The initial step for us all to come to knowledge of God is contemplation of nature.
- Irenaeus of Lyons
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.
- Mother Teresa
Never a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of nature's varied forms.
- George Washington Carver
STOP AND LOOK out the window and see how beautiful the world is. It is there-enjoy it. Go out tonight and look up at the stars. They are the wonders of nature
- Dale Carnegie
The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
- James Allen
One has to be alone, under the sky, Before everything falls into place and one finds his or her own place in the midst of it all. We have to have the humility to realize ourselves as part of nature.
- Thomas Merton
A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
- Albert Einstein
On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing is solitude
- William Wordsworth
The worse I get along with people the more I learn to have faith in Nature and concentrate on her.
- Vincent Van Gogh
In contemplation of created things, by steps we may ascend to God.
- John Milton
Me imperturbe, standing at ease in nature.
- Walt Whitman
...the desert is so huge, and the horizons so distant, that they make a person feel small, and as if he should remain silent.
- Paulo Coelho