Quotes About Contemplation

He who knows does not feel wonder. It could not be said that God experiences wonder, for God knows in the most absolute and perfect way.

To think well is to serve God in the interior court.

I cannot imagine anyone looking at the sky and denying God.

It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.

The inner world is very potent for me - I don't ascribe to any God or Jesus or Buddha - I just have a sense of it and revere it along with the natural world and human consciousness.

Moses Kaldor had always loved mountains; they made him feel nearer to the God whose nonexistence he still sometimes resented.

Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.

Think often on God, by day, by night, in your business and even in your diversions. He is always near you and with you; leave him not alone.

Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

It never really occurred to me to believe in God.

I don't understand how people can believe in God, even when I myself think of him everyday.

In the very corner of my soul there is an altar to a different god.

I found it better for my soul to be humble before the mysteries o' God's dealings, and not be making a clatter about what I could never understand.

Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality.

Perhaps history is a thing that would stop happening if God held His breath, or could be imagined as turning away to think of something else.

Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me.

But a faithful believer will in all circumstances mediate on the mercy and fatherly goodness of God.

Deepest communion with God is beyond words, on the other side of silence.

Nothing true can be said about God from a posture of defense.

I think the church needs to be much more countercultural than that and invite people into slowing down, into a "Be-still-and-know-that-I-am-God" mindset.

I came to realize I did believe in God. I couldn't conceive of a universe without someone overseeing it in a compassionate way.

Can omniscient God, who Knows the future, find The omnipotence to Change His future mind?

Oh, I don't talk about God.

When we pray, we must begin by conceiving God in full and vigorous images, but we must go on to acknowledge the inadequacy of them and to adhere nakedly to the imageless truth of God.