Quotes about Contemplation
If you want to know anything about community, you have to realize that the contemplative side is essential. Community without retreating and quiet time never survives.
- Henri Nouwen
Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a fig, and as to time the turning of a gimlet .
- Marcus Aurelius
God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. The man who would know God must give time to Him.
- AW Tozer
"We don't take sufficient time to meditate." I get up early in the morning...five o'clock, when my mind and spirit are clear and rested. Then I meditate.
- David O. McKay
One of the most convicting things I have recently come to realize about Jesus is that He was never, not once, in a hurry.
- Mark Buchanan
Silence is the room we create for the searching of God, where we hear His voice and follow.
- Mark Buchanan
I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!
- Mark Twain
He is best of all who of himself conceiveth all things; Good again is he too who can adopt a good suggestion; But whoso neither of himself conceiveth nor hearing from another Layeth it to heart;—he is a useless man.
- Aristotle
It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too.
- Aristotle
When in doubt, say nothing and move on.
- Arthur C. Clarke
The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, 'Create silence'.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Prayer is listening.
- Soren Kierkegaard