Quotes about Contemplation

Wherefore let us be much in the contemplation of what he was, what he did, how in all instances of duties and trials he carried himself, until an image or idea of his perfect holiness is implanted in our minds, and we are made like unto him thereby.

Nor can we be any of us delivered from this snare, at this season, without a watchful endeavour to keep and preserve our minds in the constant contemplation of things spiritual and heavenly, proceeding from the prevalent adherence of our affections unto them, as will appear in the ensuing discourse.

Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.

When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

Look within. Within is the fountain of the good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

Never less idle than when wholly idle, nor less alone than when wholly alone.

No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.

Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll go canoeing.

I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come.