Quotes about Contemplation
The speech of God is silence. His Word is solitude.
- Thomas Merton
To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
- Victor Hugo
Listen in silence because if your heart is full of other things you cannot hear the voice of God
- Mother Teresa
Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God - to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.
- Florence Nightingale
To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.
- Johannes Tauler
When God threw me, a pebble, into this wondrous lake, I disturbed its surface with countless circles. But when I reached the depths, I became very still.
- Khalil Gibran
The best thing must be to flee from all to the All.
- Teresa of Avila
It is easier to gaze into the sun, than into the face of the mystery of God. Such is its beauty and its radiance.
- Hildegard of Bingen
I cannot imagine anyone looking at the sky and denying God.
- Abraham Lincoln
Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.
- Bernard of Clairvaux
Think often on God, by day, by night, in your business and even in your diversions. He is always near you and with you; leave him not alone.
- Brother Lawrence
All places are places of worship to a Christian. Wherever he is, he ought to be in a worshiping frame of mind.
- Charles Spurgeon