Quotes About Contemplation

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it.

Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence.

God and eternal things are my only pleasure.

It is my meditation all the day, and more than my meat and drink, to know how I shall make the Saints of God comprehend the visions that roll like an overflowing surge before my mind.

I will be silent and will hear what God will say in me...If God wishes to speak to me, let him enter. I will not go out.

He who knows about depth knows about God.

May we try to listen and be silent in order to make space for the beauty of God.

Listen, open a window to God and begin to delight yourself by gazing upon Him through the opening.

By night an atheist half-believes in God.

Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation.

The understanding soul prays; the praying soul gets understanding.

You need seek God neither below or above.He is no farther away than the door of the heart.

The most generous choices, especially the persevering, are the fruit of profound and prolonged union with God in prayerful silence.

Either there is a God or there isn't. Both possibilities are frightening.

It is not my business to think about myself. My business is to think about God. It is for God to think about me.

We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

One of the main differences between silent meditation and chanting is that silent meditation is rather dependent on concentration, but when you chant, it's more of a direct connection with God.

The awe of God is wisdom.

The more I contemplate God, the more God looks on me. The more I pray to him, the more he thinks of me too.

We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them.

Thank God for books and music and things I can think about." --Charlie Gordan

We become contemplatives when God discovers Himself in us.

My God, I pray better to you by breathing and walking than by talking, just as in choir I sing best when I am thinking about something else, or better still, praying.

We have to keep asking ourselves: 'What does it all mean? What is God trying to tell us? How are we called to live in the midst of all this?' Without such questions our lives become numb and flat.