Quotes about Contemplation
If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.
— Cicero
Next to prayer, Fishing is the most personal relationship of man.
— Herbert Hoover
When we find a man meditating on the words of God, my friends, that man is full of boldness and is successful.
— DL Moody
His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.
— Edith Wharton
It is certain that man never achieves a clear knowledge of himself unless he has first looked upon God's face, and then descends from contemplating him to scrutinize himself.
— John Calvin
The wise man comes to God without saying a word and stands in awe of Him.
— Francis Chan
By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening, compels me to solitude.
— Henry David Thoreau
Prayer is the act by which man, detaching himself from the embarrassments of sense and nature, ascends to the true level of his destiny.
— Henry Parry Liddon
If we allow ourselves even for a moment to contemplate the vast weight of suffering in the world, we will easily be overwhelmed with grief. This is why we develop the habit and self-protective instinct of overlooking the suffering around us.
— Thabiti M. Anyabwile
Nergens heb ik meer rust gevonden dan in bossen en boeken.
— Thomas a Kempis
What canst thou see elsewhere which thou canst not see here? Behold the heaven and the earth and all the elements; for of these are all things created.
— Thomas a Kempis
Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying, or meditating, or endeavoring something for the public good.
— Thomas a Kempis