Quotes About Contemplation

There is much in Christianity which can be subjected to exact analysis. But the ultimate things are shrouded in the silent mysteries of God.

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

The best service you can do is to keep your thoughts on God. Keep God in mind every minute.

The world appears very little to a soul that contemplates the greatness of God.

Live as though only God and yourself were in this world, so that your heart may not be detained by anything human.

Oh, this thing of keeping in constant touch with God, of making him the object of my thought and the companion of my conversations, is the most amazing thing I ever ran across.

I don't believe in God. I believe something is happening, I'm not sure what it is.

When you meditate, the silence of the senses illumines the presence of God within.

It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do: good Christians content themselves with His will revealed in His Word.

God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies

God cannot catch us. Unless we stay in the unconscious room. Of our hearts.

A theological thought can breathe only in the atmosphere of dialogue with God.

Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.

God, freedom, and immortality are untenable in the light of pure reason.

We must seek, in studying God, to be led to God.

The friend of silence comes close to God. In secret he converses with him and receives his light.

When we see a beautiful object, a beautiful garden, or a beautiful flower, let us think that there we behold a ray of the infinite beauty of God, who has given existence to that object.

God willeth to be seen and to be sought: to be abided and to be trusted.

But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly with God.

Through the study of books one seeks God; by meditation one finds him.

And then, in that regal silence, finally - I began to meditate on (and with) God.

True silence is a garden enclosed, where alone the soul can meet its God.

Arguments about God are like pointing a flashlight toward the sky to see if the sun is shining.

Whoever possesses God in their being has Him in a divine manner, and He shines out to them in all things; for them all things taste of God and in all things it is God's image that they see.