Quotes about Contemplation
What can God have that gives him greater satisfaction than that a thousand times a day all his creatures should thus pause to withdraw and worship him in the heart.
- Brother Lawrence
If you aren't constantly astonished at God's grace in your solitude, there's no way it can happen in public.
- Timothy Keller
I felt it better to speak to God than about Him.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
The reason for our loving God is God.
- Bernard of Clairvaux
Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God's presence.
- Joyce Meyer
Sainthood lies in the habit of referring the smallest actions to God.
- CS Lewis
It is in lonely solitude that God delivers His best thoughts, and the mind needs to be still and quiet to receive them.
- Charles Swindoll
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone.
- Thomas Jefferson
If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it.
- Vincent Van Gogh
Our job as humans is to make admiration of others and adoration of God fully conscious and deliberate.
- Fr. Richard Rohr