Quotes About Contemplation

I like to think that at best the interview becomes something like the unaccountable experience of talking to oneself in a mirror.

Do nothing rashly; want of circumspection is the chief cause of failure and disaster. Fortune, wise lover of the wise, selects him for her lord who ere he acts reflects.

A retreat from someone or something isn't unusual. Just as how you edge closer to see better, at times you may need to take a step back to get a clearer view.

Place your mind before the mirror of eternity! Place your soul in the brilliance of glory! And transform your entire being into the image of the Godhead Itself through contemplation.

Listen and attend with the ear of your heart.

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for it can be true only by accident.

God speaks silently, God speaks in your heart; if your heart is noisy, chattering, you will not hear.

Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith.

Oh let us continually keep faith in exercise, till it be entirely swallowed up in the boundless ocean of beatific vision.

I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith.

Faith is not reason's labour, but repose.

It's very reassuring and spiritual to be connected with something larger than yourself and the inside of your own head.

I swear I will never henceforth have to do with the faith that tells the best! I will have to do only with that faith that leaves the best untold.

Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection

Faith is the subject of the head. Devotion is the subject of the heart and meditation connects both.

Real worship involves waiting.

Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.

I really envy, in some respects, some of the people of faith I've known - A.J.[Muste], for example.

It is wise to consider a matter carefully before jumping in carelessly.

To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.

Silence is the best answer you can give to an issue. What's the use of admitting, denying and to justify, when you have been already judged.

Try to become the kind of person that people are anxious to see you as, and after you leave, they will have a lot of thinking to do.

Staring at something you just dropped and wondering if you should pick it up or leave it and go on with your life.

Lonely hours are the best hours in life. Because its the only time we share our deepest secrets with the most trusted person in the world, ourselves.