Quotes about Contemplation

God speaks in the silence of the heart.

In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love.

Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.

Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding places in a voluminous writer.

As I stared out at the grim skyline, a bright sliver of the sun peeked over the horizon. Watching it rise, I performed a mental ritual: Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star. One of over a hundred billion stars in our galaxy. A galaxy that was just one of billions of other galaxies in the observable universe. This helped me keep things in perspective.

Sempre que via o sol, eu me lembrava de que estava olhando para uma estrela. Uma entre mais de cem bilhões de estrelas em nossa galáxia. Uma galáxia que era apenas uma entre bilhões de outras galáxias no Universo. Isso me ajudava a manter a cabeça no lugar.

Prayers are tools not for doing or getting, but for being and becoming.

Action without prayer thins out into something very exterior. A prayerless life can result in effective action and accomplish magnificent things, but if there is no developed interiority, the action never enters into the depth and intimacy of relationships.

Holy ground is dangerous ground.

All serious and good writing anticipates precisely this kind of reading-ruminative and leisurely, a dalliance with words in contrast to wolfing down information.

There is a large, leisurely center to existence where God must be deeply pondered, lovingly believed.

I do not have more information after reading a poem; I have more experience.