Quotes about Contemplation

Solitude can be very rewarding and full of blessing because in the silence of the inner being, one finds God.

A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.

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.

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

Without silence, we will not get any closer to knowing who we are before God.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.

Meditate upon what you ought to be in body and soul when death overtakes you; meditate on the brevity of life, and the measureless gulf of eternity behind it and before, and upon the frailty of everything material.

It stares you in the face. No role is so well suited to philosophy as the one you happen to be in right now.

Consider the past; such great changes of political supremacies. Thou mayest foresee also the things which will be. For they will certainly be of like form, and it is not possible that they should deviate from the order of the things which take place now: accordingly to have contemplated human life for forty years is the same as to have contemplated it for ten thousand years. For what more wilt thou see?