Quotes about Contemplation

Last night I felt the approach of nothing. Not too close but on its way, like a wingbeat, like the cooling of the wind, the slight initial tug of an undertow.

I long for periods without saying anything at all. I can be free of words now, I can lapse back into wordlessness, I can sink back into the rhythyms of transience as if into bed.

Maybe nothing happened, maybe these emotions I remember are not the right emotions.

I don't want to be left by myself in this room. The walls are too empty, there are no pictures on them nor curtains on the little high-up window, nothing to look at and so you look at the wall, and after you do that for a time, there are pictures on it after all, and red flowers growing.

The english word thanks comes from the same root word as think. Maybe if leaders were more 'think-ful' about the contribution of others, they would be more 'thankful' to them.

The height of devotion is reached when reverence and contemplation produce passionate worship, which in turn breaks forth in thanksgiving and praise in word and song.

Give yourself time just to be with yourself.

If we only spent more of our time in looking at Him we should soon forget ourselves.

The essence of meditation is a period of time set aside to contemplate the Lord, listen to Him, and allow Him to permeate our spirits.

Sabbath is that uncluttered time and space in which we can distance ourselves from our own activities enough to see what God is doing.

Sometimes when we don't know the answer, it's time to simply be with the question.

My soul often mourned of more time and opportunity to be alone with God.