Quotes about Contemplation

Thinking Christians think in believing and they believe in thinking.

For any follower of Jesus Christ who follows this path on the quest for meaning, the statement is true: A Christian thinks in believing and believes in thinking.

Christians," as that crusty old philosopher Bertrand Russell used to quip, "would sooner die than think—in fact they do.

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

Learn to associate ideas worthy of God with all that happens in Nature—the sunrises and the sunsets, the sun and the stars, the changing seasons, and your imagination will never be at the mercy of your impulses, but will always be at the service of God.

One of the reasons of stultification in prayer is that there is no imagination, no power of putting ourselves deliberately before God.

When God brings a time of waiting, and appears to be unresponsive, don't fill it with busyness, just wait.

If you have never used your mind to place yourself before God, begin to do it now.

We don't often take time to sit and meditate on what our lives would've been like if the mercy of the Redeemer had not been written into our personal stories.

Mathematician need only peace of mind and occasionally, paper and pencil.

Astonishment is the root of philosophy.

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.