Quotes About Contemplation

To know that God thinks about me is the beginning of my journey of faith.

As for me, I cannot understand how it is possible not to be always thinking of God.

Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.

He who has heard the Word of God can bear his silences.

If God is incomprehensible to man, it would seem rational never to think of Him at all.

The truest communication with God is absolute, total silence; there is not a single word in existence that can convey this communication.

They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.

To see everything in God and to see God in everything normally takes a lifetime of practice.

He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying.

When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking to me, and about me".

Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.

Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is as little as that, He is beneath it.

Deeply I go down into myself. My god is Dark and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.

We can never reflect too much on God's grace.

What can God have that gives him greater satisfaction than that a thousand times a day all his creatures should thus pause to withdraw and worship him in the heart.

Each day, whatever I am doing, I am always praying and thinking of God.

If you aren't constantly astonished at God's grace in your solitude, there's no way it can happen in public.

Worship is adoring contemplation of God.

Remember God so much that you are forgotten.

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

All I want to do is learn to think like God. All the rest is just details.

I felt it better to speak to God than about Him.

Prayer is naught but a rising desire of the heart into God by withdrawing of the heart from all earthly thoughts.

Blessed, blessed is that body horse which meditates on the Lord God.