Quotes about Contemplation

When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

Truth sees God, and wisdom contemplates God, and from these two comes a third, a holy and wonderful delight in God, who is love.

The loser, when a game of dice is done, remains behind reviewing every roll sadly, and sadly wiser, and alone.

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.

Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.

Enjoy the questions and forget the answers.

The value of your Creator should cause you to reconsider your own worth and value.

She didn't ask where they were going. She just leaned back and stared up into the dark night sky. He would have been hard-pressed to explain it to anyone, but he'd never felt so much like a man as he did when he was with her. He wanted to protect her, provide for her, make her laugh, love her in every way he could. And he liked that she didn't have to fill every moment with words too.