Quotes About Contemplation

The inner emptiness is the door to God.

Theology is only thought applied to religion.

Let me be one of the upward and outward lookers, not one of the downward and inward lookers.

I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.

My religion is a matter solely between my Maker and myself.

I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion's sake.

Mountains had taken the place of religion, had satisfied her religious sense, her need for adoration and worship as no service in any Cathedral, however sublime, had been able to do.

How can we be so confident that we are correct about the religion of Islam that it is really different in this insidious way and people 50 years from now, people aren't going to back on.

No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'

I would like to have Brooklyn christened but I'm not sure which religion yet.

In religion, you're supposed to be somehow in touch with something deep and full of mysteries.

In a heartbeat, he understands why religions are born on the sands – there is nothing here for a man but his own mind.

Gods didn't mind atheists, if they were deep, hot, fiery, atheists like Simony, who spend their whole life hating gods for not existing. That sort of atheism was a rock. It was nearly belief …

Reflect carefully on this, for it is so important that I can hardly lay too much stress on it. Fix your eyes on the Crucified and nothing else will be of much importance to you.

If you are religious, pray. If you are philosophical, contemplate. If you are spiritual, meditate.

Religion is what an individual does with his solitariness.

Do you believe in God, Martin?'And he answered, 'Yes, because of His trees. Don't you?''I'm not sure...''Oh, my poor, blind Stephen! Look again, go on looking until you do believe.

I was raised Catholic and I have a lot of respect for the good in the Catholic Church. But I don't go to church.

One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking. I always try to think before I talk.

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

My cigarettes and I are going outside. At least they show me respect.

I am a man that has a lot of respect for faith and spirituality. I think it is important that we talk about religion in today's world.

I don't really believe in anything special, but I respect God. I go to church sometimes, but not often.

He who has no pleasure in looking up, is not fit so much as to look down.