Quotes about Contemplation
God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.
- Mother Teresa
In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.
- Mother Teresa
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature--trees, flowers, grass--grows in silence see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls.
- Mother Teresa
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls.
- Mother Teresa
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
- Muhammad Ali
To many, "The Bible is a form of verbal wallpaper, pleasant enough in the background, but he stop thinking about it after you have lived in the house for a few weeks.
- NT Wright
The best conversations are with yourself. At least there's no risk of a misunderstanding.
- Olga Tokarczuk
Thinking Christians think in believing and they believe in thinking.
- Os Guinness
For any follower of Jesus Christ who follows this path on the quest for meaning, the statement is true: A Christian thinks in believing and believes in thinking.
- Os Guinness
Christians," as that crusty old philosopher Bertrand Russell used to quip, "would sooner die than think—in fact they do.
- Os Guinness
The one thing that remains is looking in the face of God for ourselves.
- Oswald Chambers
Learn to associate ideas worthy of God with all that happens in Nature—the sunrises and the sunsets, the sun and the stars, the changing seasons, and your imagination will never be at the mercy of your impulses, but will always be at the service of God.
- Oswald Chambers