Quotes about Contemplation

You need to have time to really hear God.

The spiritual journey has to do with learning to think more deeply and take as long a time as we need. That's the path to wisdom.

I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else.

It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.

It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky, up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made, or only just happened- Jim he allowed they was made, but I allowed they happened; I judged it would have took too long to make so many.

I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.

We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made, or only just happened - Jim he allowed they was made, but I allowed they happened; I judged it would have took too long to make so many. Jim said the moon could a laid them; well that looked kind of reasonable, so I didn't say nothing against it, because I've seen a frog lay most as many, so of course It could be done.

I waked that I judged it was after eight o'clock. I laid there in the grass and the cool shade thinking about things, and feeling rested and ruther comfortable and satisfied. I could see the sun out at one or two holes, but mostly it was big trees all about, and gloomy in

We don not think, in the holy places; we think in bed, afterwards, when the glare, and the the noise, and the confusion are gone, and in fancy we revisit alone, the solemn monuments of the past, and summon the phantom pageants of an age that has passed away.

Not a sparrow falls to the ground without His seeing it. But it falls, just the same. What good is seeing it fall?

Whenever you are popular just pause and see the reflect.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. But