Quotes about Contemplation

In the good days remember also death.

We need long train journeys on which we have no wireless signal.

Reading is on the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it: it does not constitute it.

Remember, when you're reading your Bible, your Bible is also reading you." It is a two-way transaction.

For we cannot speak of the beginning; where the beginning begins our thinking stops, it comes to an end.

Ascension joy—inwardly we must become very quiet to hear the soft sound of this phrase at all. Joy lives in its quietness and incomprehensibility. This joy is in fact incomprehensible, for the comprehensible never makes for joy.

If we have learned to be silent before the Word, we will also learn to manage our silence and our speech during the day.

Before the heart unlocks itself for the world, God wants to open it for himself; before the ear takes in the countless voices of the day, it should hear in the early hours the voice of the Creator and Redeemer. God prepared the stillness of the first morning for himself. It should remain his.

To be silent does not mean to be inactive; rather it means to breathe in the will of God, to listen attentively and be ready to obey.4 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Meditating on the Word.

Sit and reflect on life itself and you would discover that nothing happens by chance.

The life of a Christian is wondrously ruled in this world, by the consideration and meditation of the life of another world.

One single day of devotion is worth more than a thousand years of worldly life.