Quotes about Contemplation

Direct your eye right inward, and you'll find A thousand regions in your mind Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be expert in home-cosmography.

What are these pines & these birds about? What is this pond a-doing? I must know a little more.

A voice said to him—Why do you stay here and live this mean moiling life, when a glorious existence is possible for you? Those same stars twinkle over other fields than these.—But how to come out of this condition and actually migrate thither? All that he could think of was to practise some new austerity, to let his mind descend into his body and redeem it, and treat himself with ever increasing respect.

I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A

What should we think of the shepherd's life if his flocks always wandered to higher pastures than his thoughts?

Most men are satisfied if they read or hear read, and perchance have been convicted by the wisdom of one good book, the Bible, and for the rest of their lives vegetate and dissipate their faculties in what is called easy reading

He offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea.

The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.

God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.

George Müller once said, "I live in the spirit of prayer. I pray as I walk about, when I lie down and when I rise up.

In high school I was very much involved in poetry. You cannot read a poem quickly. There's too much going on there. There are rhythms and alliterations. You have to read poetry slow, slow, slow to absorb it all.

Look at everything through the lens of eternity. If you will do this, life will take on a different perspective.