Quotes About Contemplation

How can you expect God to speak in that gentle and inward voice which melts the soul, when you are making so much noise with your rapid reflections? Be silent and God will speak again.

Prayer is sitting in the silence until it silences us, choosing gratitude until we are grateful, and praising God until we ourselves are an act of praise.

True prayer is a lonely business.

A season of silence is the best preparation for speech with God.

God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.

Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

Prayer immediately turns us into something greater than ourselves.

Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.

Prayer is the laying aside of thoughts.

Prayer means lovingly contemplating the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, allowing our hearts to be enkindled to praise and adore the love and omnipotence of the most blessed Trinity.

A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet.

The stillness of prayer is the most essential condition for fruitful action. Before all else, the disciple kneels down.

The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.

Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.

Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night.

I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

No man - I don't care how colossal his intellect - No man is greater than his prayer life.

Prayer is nothing else than a sense of God's presence

Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.

One should never initiate anything that he cannot saturate with prayer.

This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!

I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer.