Quotes about Contemplation
Whenever God is conceived in the soul, it is always an allowing, never an accomplishment.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
To keep the mind space open, you need some form of meditative practice—something much more than saying prayers. In fact, if recitation of prayers does not lead to a change in consciousness, it is actually counterproductive.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry.
— Kathleen Norris
Our very contract with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity.
— Pope John Paul II
But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in your power whenever you choose to retire into yourself.
— Marcus Aurelius
Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.
— Victor Hugo
It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.
— William James
He prays best who does not know that he is praying.
— St. Anthony of Padua
A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.
— Teresa of Avila
Seek in reading and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer and it will be opened to you in contemplation.
— John of the Cross
Those who pray from the heart do not think about the prayer they are saying, but about the God to whom they pray.
— Francis de Sales