Quotes about Contemplation
God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies.
- Viktor E. Frankl
God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewing) needle - and my heart and thoughts.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
We must seek, in studying God, to be led to God.
- JI Packer
When we see a beautiful object, a beautiful garden, or a beautiful flower, let us think that there we behold a ray of the infinite beauty of God, who has given existence to that object.
- Alphonsus Liguori
God willeth to be seen and to be sought: to be abided and to be trusted.
- Julian of Norwich
To know that God thinks about me is the beginning of my journey of faith.
- AW Tozer
Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.
- Johannes Tauler
He who has heard the Word of God can bear his silences.
- Ignatius of Loyola
He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying.
- Francis de Sales
Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.
- Thomas Merton
Judge yourself; if you sincerely and humbly do that, you will not be judged by God.
- Johannes Tauler
Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is as little as that, He is beneath it.
- Mark Twain