Quotes about Contemplation
Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
- Teresa of Avila
Contemplation is nothing else but a secret, peaceful, and loving infusion of God, which, if admitted, will set the soul on fire with the Spirit of love.
- John of the Cross
Remember God more often than you breathe.
- Gregory of Nazianzus
The soul never thinks without a picture.
- Aristotle
The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Without solitude it is virtually impossible to live a spiritual life. ...We do not take the spiritual life seriously if we do not set aside some time to be with God and listen to him.
- Henri Nouwen
Meditation is one of the ways in which the spiritual man keeps himself awake.
- Thomas Merton
We are silent at the beginning of the day because God should have the first word, and we are silent before going to sleep because the last word also belongs to God.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I like the monastic life... in the prayer and the praising... this has charged me with new energy, spiritual energy. This is very important for my ministry outside the monastery.
- Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria
The ancient spiritual tradition is that God gives himself fully to us in silence and solitude.
- Brennan Manning
We can all see God in exceptional things, but it requires the culture of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail.
- Oswald Chambers
We must break the evil habit of ignoring the spiritual. We must shift our interest from the seen to the unseen.
- AW Tozer