Quotes about Contemplate

With the Rosary, the Christian people sits at the school of Mary and is led to contemplate the beauty on the face of Christ and to experience the depths of his love.

Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.

Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.

One day I saw a flower and began to contemplate its fragrance and beauty. As I thought more deeply, I recognized the creator of such wonders- not with my mortal eyes but with my spiritual eyes. This filled my heart with joy, but my joy was still greater when I recognized that same creator at work within my own soul. How wonderful is God, separate from creation yet ever filling it with his glorious presence.

Just as it is better to illuminate than merely to shine, so to pass on what one has contemplated is better than merely to contemplate.

God saw that a Sabbath was essential for man, even in Paradise. He needed to lay aside his own interests and pursuits for one day of the seven, that he might more fully contemplate the works of God and meditate upon his power and goodness. He needed a Sabbath to remind him more vividly of God and to awaken gratitude because all that he enjoyed and possessed came from the beneficent hand of the Creator.

Faith in the atonement and intercession of Christ will keep us steadfast and immovable amid the temptations that press upon us... Let us contemplate the glorious hope that is set before us, and by faith lay hold upon it.

I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.

We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.

The passenger wondered when it was that he had first begun to detest laughter like a bad smell.

Here we have another instance of an Old Testament law finding its truest fulfilment in the crucified body of Jesus Christ. As they contemplate this body which was given for them, and as they share its life, the disciples receive strength for the chastity which Jesus requires.

Think and wonder, wonder and think.