Quotes about Contemplation
Thanksgiving is possible only for those who take time to remember; no one can give thanks who has a short memory.
- Anonymous
It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting.
- Anonymous
My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned.
- Anonymous
Deep calleth unto deep.
- Anonymous
I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
- Anonymous
Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
- Anonymous
Give a man a truth and he will think for a day. Show a man to reason and he will think for a lifetime.
- Anonymous
I have a mystical bent, and I pursue daily meditations that follow the liturgical calendar - what are called the 'daily offices' of the church.
- Jay Parini
Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.
- Mortimer Adler
At the age of fifteen, he had already learned silence.
- Frank Herbert
I can think of nothing more poisonous than to rot in the stink of your own reflections.
- Frank Herbert
It occurred to her that mercy was the ability to stop, if only for a moment.
- Frank Herbert