Quotes about Contemplation

Believe me, you will find more lessons in the woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you what you cannot learn from masters.

In things of beauty, he contemplated the One who is supremely beautiful, and, led by the footprints he found in creatures, he followed the Beloved everywhere

Tear your heart away from everything else; then seek God and you will surely find him.

Reading is of great service towards procuring recollection in any one who proceeds in this way; and it is even necessary for him, however little it may be that he reads, if only as a substitute for the mental prayer which is beyond his reach.

Since in the centre of the soul there is a mansion reserved for God Himself...

I believe we shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavouring to know God, for, beholding His greatness we are struck by our own baseness, His purity shows our foulness, and by meditating on His humility we find how very far we are from being humble. 11.

The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.

What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.

Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.

Don't go outside; get back to yourself, in the inner man lies the Truth.

When filled with holy truth the mind rests.

Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are!