Quotes About Contemplation

Wer überlegt, der sucht Bewegungsgründe, nicht zu dürfen.

If ash-trays could speak, sir.' 'Indeed, yes.

There was no scene, no tears, just thought — the long private thought of somebody who has to alter a whole course of life.

The words of human love have been used by the saints to describe their vision of God, and so I suppose we might use the terms of prayer, meditation, contemplation to explain the intensity of the love we feel for a woman...

and sitting there, my fingers on the quiet instrument, with something to look forward to. I thought to myself: I remember. This is what hope feels like.

words like 'mystery' and 'soul' and 'the source of life' came in over and over again, as they sat on the bed talking, with nothing to do and nothing to believe and nowhere better to go.

I've reached the age when sex isn't the problem so much as old age and death. I wake up with these in mind and not a woman's body. I just don't want to be alone in my last decade, that's all. I wouldn't know what to think about all day long.

Don't be too sorry for those who die after some pain. It makes them ready to go. Think of how a death sentence must sound when you are full of health and vigour.

I suppose in all lives a moment comes when we wonder--suppose after all there is a God, suppose the theologians are right.

another long think. Then she said, "Can

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards solitude. - Tubal Kain

And she supposed—the furrowed face would bloom again—that it was a very common human predicament. To be at a loss, not to know what to do with yourself.

There are those who fashion history and those who contemplate it; there are those who make things happen and those who ask why.

Odd how food and water and a clean body—and a few moments of rest—lead me into philosophy.

Looking down the road that runs along the bluff, I spy a solitary figure in the rain. The Turning Angel.

When you start talking to yourself in a graveyard, it's time to go home.

He began to wonder if there was something wrong with him.

If you don't know what to do, do nothing.

Can I bring the Lord back into my mind-flow every few seconds so that God shall always be in my mind? I choose to make the rest of my life an experiment in answering this question. Frank Laubach1

The way to focus our minds in prayer, therefore, is to picture mentally the one to whom we pray and the matter about which we pray.

Very carefully he thought about nothing.

Without thinking he held his hands open in front of his chest.

The elevator brought them up slow and steady, giving them all time to reflect in silence.

How human, to ruminate even when in mortal danger