Quotes about Contemplation

A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.

You and I will only be able to understand what is valuable when we examine things from the perspective of eternity.

As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.

Lonely was much better than alone.

A theologian is one who prays—and stays awake.

Carol, if you could be a member of the opposite sex for twenty-four hours, and then pop back and be yourself again, who would you be and what would you do?" My mind started racing like mad. Opposite sex? For twenty-four hours? Who would I be? What would I do? I said a quick little prayer. Please, let me just open my mouth and have whatever comes out make sense. I took a deep breath and what came out was this: "I'd be Osama bin Laden, and I'd kill myself.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Do not pray by heart, but with the heart.

Granting that we are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense; for they, as it were, see that He is looking upon them, while others may go for days on end without even once recollecting that God sees them.

Silence is the unbearable repartee.

Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.