Quotes about Contemplation

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

I have found, after a good deal of consideration, that the best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him here.

The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.

Tell yourself right now and throughout today, that it's okay to draw away from the maddening crowd. Jesus did; so can you.

Religion is life, philosophy is thought; religion looks up, friendship looks in. We need both thought and life, and we need that the two shall be in harmony.

Theology is only thought applied to religion.

Let me be one of the upward and outward lookers, not one of the downward and inward lookers.

No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'

I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.

He who has no pleasure in looking up, is not fit so much as to look down.

Work might come later, but for now, he needed God's perspective. And the only way to get it was to stop, look, listen, and remember the goodness and greatness of Almighty God.

Of course he could still conjure up the old faces. But they didn't return on their own anymore. In order to see images of Channa or Suddhodana, he would ask to see them. "Learn to use your memories," he told the younger bikkhus. "Don't let them use you.