Quotes about Contemplation
The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination.
— George Eliot
So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.
— Walt Whitman
I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.
— Wendell Berry
Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.
— St. Augustine
To find love I must enter into the sanctuary where it is hidden, which is the mystery of God.
— Thomas Merton
One opens the inner doors of one's heart to the infinite silences of the Spirit, out of whose abysses love wells up without fail and gives itself to all.
— Thomas Merton
I love being alone. I learned that from my father, I think, who loved his own company.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
The quietness will slow my pulse, the silence will open my ears, and something sacred will happen. The soft slap of sandaled feet will break the stillness, a pierced hand will extend a quiet invitation, and I will follow.
— Max Lucado
You do things God does. Think. Question. Reflect. You blueprint buildings, chart sea crossings, and swallow throat lumps when your kids say their alphabet. You, like Adam, have a soul.
— Max Lucado
Celebrate. Ask. Leave. Meditate. C.A.L.M.
— Max Lucado