Quotes about Contemplation
...make a poem that does not disturb the silence from which it came." Wendell Berry
- Wendell Berry
The fullness of Joy is to behold God in everything.
- Julian of Norwich
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
- Dallas Willard
If I look at the mass I will never act.
- Mother Teresa
Where I come from if a man can't think of anything to pray about offhand, why, there is no need of him praying.
- Will Rogers
The deepest rivers make least din, the silent soule doth most abound in care.
- William Alexander
Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner—and then to thinking! It is hard if I cannot start some game on these lone heaths.
- William Hazlitt
The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.
- William Hazlitt
Finding God in All Things.
- Ignatius of Loyola
The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.
- Dallas Willard
Therefore Lord, not only are you that than which a greater cannot be thought but you are also something greater than can be thought.
- Anselm of Canterbury