Quotes About Contemplation

The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.

Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.

When a garden is used as a place to pause for thought, that is when a Zen garden comes to life. When you contemplate a garden like this it will form as lasting impression on your heart.

To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking Him.

gardening is something more than a pastime; it is a religion.

I definitely want Brooklyn to be christened, but I don't know into what religion yet.

The search for religion is the starting point of thought.

The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception.

Science is and should be seen as "completely neutral" on the issue of the theistic or atheistic implications of scientific results.

Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.

Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

Tell yourself right now and throughout today, that it's okay to draw away from the maddening crowd. Jesus did; so can you.

Religion is consciousness-raising. It raises you higher than the problem, it gives you a bird's-eye view.

I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.

While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.

Men seldom think deeply on subjects in which they have no choice of opinion: they are fearful of encountering obstacles to their faith--as in religion--and so are content with the surface.

I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.

My misfortune is my ability to see both sides even of the fundamental religious question.

First inclination is to become a monk and leave the situation.

When it comes to religion today, we tend to be long on butterflies and short on cocoons. Somehow we're going to have to relearn that the deep things of God don't come suddenly.

Religion has only one answer and that answer is meditation. And meditation means how to empty yourself.

Religion is what a man does with his solitariness.

Religion is something that you need to do in silence.