Quotes About Contemplation

The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.

Question your priorities often, make sure God always comes first.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

Therefore Lord, not only are you that than which a greater cannot be thought but you are also something greater than can be thought.

God's name is not known; it is wondered at.

I am able to love my God because He gives me freedom to deny Him.

My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just

Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.

Silence...leads us to make a gift of self rather than a selfishness that has been gift-wrapped ...Silence does not mean running away but rather recollecting ourselves in the open space of God.

God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.

If God himself has waited six thousand years for someone to contemplate his works, my book can wait for a hundred.

Looking at art is one way of listening to God.

You may live in a crowd but you meet God and face eternity alone

Every evening brings us nearer God.

Real zeal is standing still and letting God be a bonfire in you.

The brilliance of contemplated beauty opens the spirit to the mystery of God.

Is there a God? Is there an afterlife?... I think that now, more so than ever, people are much more willing to take the time and question what's out there.

The wider our contemplation of creation, the grander is our conception of God.

While we are on the go, we need to stop between steps, to refocus on the Word and the will of God

The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world.

Keep a space where God can let something totally new take place.

One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.