Quotes About Contemplation

If you don't go within you go without.

The real meaning of a poem is to stop time.

Without a wish, without a will, I stood upon that silent hill And stared into the sky until My eyes were blind with stars and still I stared into the sky.

More strictly defined, meditation is thinking about God. Prayer is actually speaking to God, either in words or in silent contemplation.

The experience of union in prayer, Teresa makes very clear, is intended to help make more possible the union of our wills with God's will, in a more profound obedience and love.

A form of wordless prayer in which mind and heart focus on God's greatness and goodness in affective, loving adoration; to look on Jesus and the mysteries of his life with faith and love

A Christian man ponders eternity for decades, only to find it's fifteen minutes long.

The most precious things in speech are pauses.

The only prudence in life is concentration.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.

In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.

I, too late,Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn.

Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October woods!

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

It is time to be old,To take in sail.

I like the silence of a church, before the service begins better than any preaching.

Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.

To think is to act.

Thought is the seed of action.

What is the hardest thing in the world To think.

If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.

Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.

The only useful purpose of the present birth is to turn within and realize the Self.