Quotes about Contemplation
If ash-trays could speak, sir.' 'Indeed, yes.
- Graham Greene
So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days.
- Graham Greene
words like 'mystery' and 'soul' and 'the source of life' came in over and over again, as they sat on the bed talking, with nothing to do and nothing to believe and nowhere better to go.
- Graham Greene
Socrates said that the unexamined life is not worth living. I think it applies to faith as well. The unexamined faith is not worth believing.
- Gregory Boyd
The way to focus our minds in prayer, therefore, is to picture mentally the one to whom we pray and the matter about which we pray.
- Gregory Boyd
What a blessing it is to be alone with your thoughts when so many are alone with their inability to think.
- Robert Brault
Even when I'm alone I have real good company — dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I like to be alone now and then, just to think over things and taste them. But I love friendships — and nice, jolly little times with people.
- LM Montgomery
She wanted to be alone - to think things out - to adjust herself, if it were possible, to the new world in which she seemed to have been transplanted with a suddenness and completeness that left her half bewildered to her own identity.
- LM Montgomery
No. I don't think I've ever been really lonely in my life," answered Anne. "Even when I'm alone I have real good company — dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I LIKE to be alone now and then, just to think over things and TASTE them.
- LM Montgomery
There's something very solemn about the idea of a new year, isn't there? Just think of three hundred and sixty-five whole days with not a thing happened in them yet.
- LM Montgomery
Saying one's prayers isn't exactly the same thing as praying.
- LM Montgomery
Well now, I dunno
- LM Montgomery