Quotes About Contemplation

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below

Our very contract with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity.

But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in your power whenever you choose to retire into yourself.

Presumably man's spirit should be elevated if he can better review his shady past and analyze more completely and objectively his present problems.

Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.

Having once aroused in our mind enough faith in our own will-power to create a universe of contemplation and forget everything else, there are few limitations to the happiness we may enjoy.

Always firmly believing in a higher power, I have also always been in search of a spiritual peace.

True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.

You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood.

We've known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it.

Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.

The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.

To be or not to be that is the question.

I know the power of speech. I don't talk much.

we only shout when we neglect what silence can do

Fill your mind, with the mind of God, meditate on the Holy Scripture.

I sometimes find myself sitting here not watching an uninteresting movie and contemplating the future. I don't always know what to do, but I have faith that I'll figure it out somehow.

In your life, everything revolves around your mind.

Those who think, Present.

When you sit alone and think out your thoughts … then that is your loudest cry!

An epigram a day keeps the mind from going astray.

He prays best who does not know that he is praying.

A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.

Prayer is the raising of the mind to God. We must always remember this. The actual words matter less.