Quotes about Contemplation

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

Happy is he who is aware of the mysteries of his Lord.

The Sabbath is holiness in time.

It is not utility that we seek in religion but eternity.

The Bible is to be understood by the spirit that grows with it, wrestles with it, and prays with it.

Six days a week the spirit is alone, disregarded, forsaken, forgotten.

There are three starting points of contemplation about God; three trails that lead to Him. The first is the way of sensing the presence of God in the world, in things; the second is the way of sensing His presence in the Bible; the third is the way of sensing His presence in sacred deeds.

He who wishes to ponder what is beyond the Bible must first learn to be sensitive to what is within the Bible.

Philosophy of religion is involved in a polarity; like an ellipse it revolves around two foci: philosophy and religion.