Quotes about Contemplation

What we think about when we are free to think about what we will — that is what we are or will soon become.

Most people in the world are Christ lovers. And then there are Christ haters. But all of them are fixated on Christ, and he perpetuates for ever.

Death is a mirror that gives us a glimpse of who we really are. Death is a rearview mirror that puts the past into perspective.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

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

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).

I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God

Live in the world as if only God and your soul were in it; then your heart will never be made captive by any earthly thing.

Silence is God's first language.

He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

questions about the future

At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.