Quotes about Contemplation
If we hurry into the holy without preparing our hearts, we will see things not as they are but as we are.
— Pete Greig
There's little point in lectio divina without the Holy Spirit's help.
— Pete Greig
When the dust clears and in the quiet of your own heart, what kind of God do you believe in, really? And why?
— Peter Enns
The broader we cast our net, the deeper we wind up owning our own thoughts.
— Peter Enns
In other words, I believe that faith in the Creator is necessarily transrational (not antirational) and mystical. I try to remember that as I work through intellectual challenges—and I mean work through, not avoid.
— Peter Enns
Thomas Merton's Thoughts in Solitude.
— Peter Enns
I have found that the prompts to adjusting my understanding of God are all around me—literally. The very heavens are shouting them, and the word they are shouting most clearly is "mystery.
— Peter Enns
Early in the evening, Isaac went out to the field to meditate, and looking up, he saw the camels approaching.
— Genesis 24:63
Her wisest ladies answer; indeed she keeps telling herself,
— Judges 5:29
How then can I answer Him or choose my arguments against Him?
— Job 9:14
Yet I desire to speak to the Almighty and argue my case before God.
— Job 13:3
Be silent, and I will speak. Then let come to me what may.
— Job 13:13