Quotes about Contemplation
Thought is the seed of action.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Come, blessed barrier between day and day, Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health!
- William Wordsworth
How important is a constant intercourse with nature and the contemplation of natural phenomena to the preservation of moral and intellectual health!
- Henry David Thoreau
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
- Lily Tomlin
Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.
- John Ortberg
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein
I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it.
- Charles Stanley
Make it a part of every day's business to read and meditate on some portion of God's Word. Private means of grace are just as needful every day for our souls as food and clothing are for our bodies.
- JC Ryle
The value you receive from reflective thinking will depend on the kinds of questions you ask yourself.
- John Maxwell
My television is the tabernacle.
- Mother Teresa