Quotes about Contemplation

One of the reasons of stultification in prayer is that there is no imagination, no power of putting ourselves deliberately before God.

When God brings a time of waiting, and appears to be unresponsive, don't fill it with busyness, just wait.

If you have never used your mind to place yourself before God, begin to do it now.

We don't often take time to sit and meditate on what our lives would've been like if the mercy of the Redeemer had not been written into our personal stories.

Mathematician need only peace of mind and occasionally, paper and pencil.

Astonishment is the root of philosophy.

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

If we hurry into the holy without preparing our hearts, we will see things not as they are but as we are.

There's little point in lectio divina without the Holy Spirit's help.

When the dust clears and in the quiet of your own heart, what kind of God do you believe in, really? And why?

The broader we cast our net, the deeper we wind up owning our own thoughts.

In other words, I believe that faith in the Creator is necessarily transrational (not antirational) and mystical. I try to remember that as I work through intellectual challenges—and I mean work through, not avoid.