Quotes about Contemplation

What I do is spend too much time thinking. Most of the time I just walk around annoyed. Would I describe myself as relatively happy, I suppose, but society gets to me. And the people that have mastered life seem to not care, and then they die, and then the grenade goes off.

Augustine of Hippo said, "Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it.

Grow us slowly, persistently, and deeply, Lord, to be people who watch without distraction, listen without interruption, and stay put without inclination to flee. Amen.

I'm a hopeless prayer. I think somewhere in there I spend a great deal of time at it.

I don't spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that's how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.

Where there is no experience the wise man is silent.

I often think about that stretch of time spent sitting helplessly at the state dinner in Chile, contemplating the knife's edge between perceived success and potential catastrophe

You can curse the dead or pray for them, but don't expect them to do a thing for you. They're far too interested in watching us, to see what in heaven's name we will do next.

My desire is that my Lord would give me broader and deeper thoughts, to feed myself with wondering at His love.

I love to live alone in my own little cottage, where I can spend much time in prayer, etc.

On the whole, God's love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him.