Quotes about Contemplation

Mentat, solve thyself, he thought.

The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.

I don't believe in ghosts or ESP or elves... or God. But I am spiritual in the sense that I get a lump in my throat when I listen to Vaughan Williams.

Thinking of the dismissal by Leicester, the first thing that comes to mind is a sense of surprise even more than of bitterness.

She gazed right through it to the future, another time and place without this jangling cascade of arbitrary noise.

When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening.

Every one must have some solitary spot where he can be alone with his God.

It is only by continuously fixing the mind for a time on some one of the lessons of faith, that the believer is gradually helped to take and thoroughly assimilate them.

The more I understand and contemplate Jesus' surrender of Himself for me, the more do I give myself again to Him. The surrender is a mutual one: the love comes from both sides. His giving of Himself makes such an impression on my heart, that my heart with the self-same love and joy becomes entirely His.

Oh! take time, to get very low before God.

No man can expect to make progress in holiness who is not often and long alone with God.

A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.