Quotes About Contemplation

In meditative prayer, one thinks and speaks not only with the mind and lips, but in a certain sense with one's whole being... All good meditative prayer is a conversation of our entire self to God.

I wonder if to stare into the face of God will drive me crazy. (I wonder who would blink first.)

Libraries can take the place of God.

By God! I will not tell you more to-day, Judge any way you will - what matters it?

I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.

Just like I believe God is everywhere, I believe that whether it's nature, whether it's sitting on a bike in spin class, that can be church, too, for me.

My fast is a matter between God and myself.

A mind not set on God is given to wandering and lacks the quality of a temple of worship.

One who truly meets the world goes out also to God.

To pray is, first of all, to let one's mind be empty. It is to cast aside for a while "the self" that has existed until now, letting only God live in one's heart.

I do not find God outside myself or conceive him except as my own and in me.

God is in all things, but so far as God is Divine and so far as He is rational, God is nowhere so properly as in the soul - in the innermost of the soul

I believe in God; I'm not saying I'm highly religious.

If you're religious, it's like looking at God.

The word God asks a question and then answers it before there is any chance to wonder.

Let us remain as empty as possible so that God can fill us up.

Silence gives us a new outlook on everything. We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say but what God says to us and through us.

There's no match for the silence of GOD.

I had this idea that the coolest thing that could happen to you was talking with God.

You can just look at a mountain and get a connection with God, you don't have to understand the mountain to feel that.

I regret my disbelief in God.

Not a single path Of thought I tread, but that it leads to God.

Let us allow ourselves to be 'infected' by St. Joseph's silence! We need it greatly, in a world that is often too noisy, that does not favor meditation or listening to the voice of God.

The one thing that remains is looking in the face of God for ourselves.