Quotes about Contemplation

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If you keep on saying a single thing to yourself, you are likely to attract it to yourself, dreaming it always, then in — Michael Bassey Johnson
Anytime you meditate, some electric jerks occur in your thigh...the symbol of premonition of an unpleasant event that ha — Michael Bassey Johnson
Good art is always dangerous, always open-ended. Once you put it out in the world you lose control of it; people will fi — Greil Marcus
I went to work, but the mood of the book would not die; it lingered, coloring everything I saw, heard, did. I now felt t — Richard Wright, Black Boy
You can't memorize poetry and stay a fake. Sooner or later, you start to understand what these poets are saying, and it — Donald Miller, Searching for God Knows What
What makes Geoffrey Chaucer such compelling reading is his creation of a riveting conversation between the ideal and the — John Mark Reynolds
Unavoidably, the life of contemplation is an everyday life, a life of fidelity in small matters, small services rendered — Hans Urs von Balthasar, Prayer
It is impossible to contemplate the word without the serious intention of doing justice to it in practical behavior. It — Hans Urs von Balthasar
Learn to listen to subtle cues from your spirit instead of the barrage coming from your brain. — David Brazzeal, Pray Like a Gourmet: Creative Ways to Feed Your Soul
Meditation puts the telescope to the eye, and enables us to see Jesus after a better sort than we could have seen Him if — Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
Most of us think too much of speech, which is but the shell of thought. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students
Sometimes I need a place to ask myself impossible questions. — Davis Bunn
We do not build the kingdom of God on earth by our own efforts (however assisted by grace); the most we can do through g — Hans Urs von Balthasar, Prayer
Prayer does not blind us to the world, but it transforms our vision of the world, and makes us see it, all men, and all — Thomas Merton, Contemplative Prayer
There is a 'movement' of meditation, expressing the basic 'paschal' rhythm of the Christian life, the passage from death — Thomas Merton, Contemplative Prayer
If you cannot recollect yourself continuously, do so once a day at least, in the morning or in the evening. In the morni — Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ
If you are religious, pray. If you are philosophical, contemplate. If you are spiritual, meditate. — John K. Brown
. . . you must not build upon foundations of prayer and contemplation alone, for, unless you strive after the virtues an — Teresa of Ávila, Interior Castle
Whether you teach or live in the cloister or nurse the sick, whether you are in religion or out of it, married or single — Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain
An examined life, an enigmatic investigation of reality, is required in order for a person to realize a transcendent spi — Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls