Quotes About Contemplation

Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .

Other forms of relating to God that have unique value in connecting us to Him include contemplative prayer and centering prayer.

Could I find a place to be alone with heaven, I would speak my heart out heaven is my need.

God has special confidences for each soul. Indeed, it would seem as though the deepest truths came only in moments of profound devotional silence and contemplation.

Silence was the first prayer I learned to trust.

Quiet, deep breath after any prayer is another form of Amen.

Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence.

I am in prayer. I am one hand, this Universe the other.

The journey of prayer is nothing more or less than a gradual awakening to the reality of recognizing what is already there.

Prayer is the supreme instance of the hidden character of the Christian life.

If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.

Prayer does not change God but it changes him who prays.

He that will learn to pray let him to sea.

Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.

No heart thrives without much secret converse with God and nothing will make amends for the want of it.

Prayer is not an exercise it is the life.

Prayer is the pillow of religion.

Nor it is an objection to say that we must understand a prayer if it is to have its true effect. That simply is not the case. Who understands the wisdom of a flower? Yet we can take pleasure in it.

The Lord's Prayer is the most perfect piece of poetry. I always feel at peace and moved when I recite it.

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.

Somewhere we know that without silence, words lose their meaning.

Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness.

I looked out of the front porch

1. The picture must, by its mere arrangement, make you look at it. 2. Having looked—see! 3. Having seen—enjoy! The