Quotes about Contemplation

The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.

In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.

I swear I will never henceforth have to do with the faith that tells the best! I will have to do only with that faith that leaves the best untold.

Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

Solitude sometimes is the best society.

Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.

Earth's crammed with Heaven, And every common bush afire with God, But only he who sees takes off his shoes — The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.

Think greatly of the greatness of God.

Every approach unto God by ardent love and delight is transfiguring. And it acts itself continually by,—(1.) Contemplation; (2.) Admiration; and, (3.) Delight in obedience.

So many people never pause long enough to make up their minds about basic issues of life and death. It's quite possible to go through your whole life, making the mechanical motions of living, adopting as your own sets of ideas you've come to any conclusion for yourself as to what life is all about.