Best 237 quotes in «contemplation quotes» category

A contemplative life has more the appearance of a life of piety than any other; but it is the divine plan to bring faith into activity and exercise.

Action isn’t my forte. I’m an expert on contemplation and mild regret.

Action is the stream, and contemplation is the spring.

Action should be founded on contemplation, and those of us who act don't put enough time, don't give enough emphasis, to contemplation.

A person may rise to the highest degree of contemplation even when busily occupied.

All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.

Books that talk about 'contemplation' often seem to have been written on Jupiter. This one is a sterling exception.

Amid those scenes of solitude... the mind is cast into the contemplation of eternal things.

But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.

Contemplation is that condition of alert passivity, in which the soul lays itself open to the divine Ground within and without, the immanent and transcendent Godhead.

Contemplation for an hour is better than formal worship for sixty years.

Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse.

Contemplation is not and cannot be a function of this external self. There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self that awakens only in contemplation, and the superficial, external self which we commonly identify with the first person singular.

Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it

Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

Erotic love is one of the highest forms of contemplation.

Do not contemplate on death; it is just an incident in life; contemplate on God, who is the master of all life.

Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.

Human vision is endowed with the greatest Reality, since it comes to us directly from the contemplation of the Universe.

Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in antiquity.

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are the highest things that can be known), and also it is the most continuous, because we are more capable of continuous contemplation than we are of any practical activity.

For what lies inside of man is the whole spiritual cosmos in condensed form. In man's inner organism we have an image of the entire cosmos.

Furthermore, the apostolic life does not exclude contemplation but encompasses it and profits by it to know better the eternal truths it must proclaim

Birth and death are the most singular events we experience - and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a thing of beauty, not ignobility.

Faith, it is evident, may be relied on to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation.

I believe that one thinks much more soundly if the thoughts arise from direct contact with things, than if one looks at things with the aim of finding this or that in them.

If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

I feel like I'm stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter a studio; it's always had a certain magic to me that has never worn off with familiarity.

I can recommend nothing better... than that you endeavor to infuse into your works what you learn from the contemplation of the works of others.

I have created a life style that supports contemplation, service to words.

I neglect God and his angles for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.

In contemplation of created things, by steps we may ascend to God.

In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view; the vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.

In vocal prayer we go to God on foot. In meditation we go to God on horseback. In contemplation we go to God in a jet.

I'm having the time of my life figuring out this next move.

I practice Buddhist philosophy and contemplation but I don't know if I'm more of anything.

It appeared to me that the dignity of which human existence is capable is not attainable by devotion to the mechanism of life , and that unless contemplation of eternal things is preserved, mankind will become no better than well-fed pigs.

It is not necessary to maintain a conversation when we are in the presence of God. We can come into His presence and rest our weary souls in quiet contemplation of Him. Our groanings, which cannot be uttered, rise to Him and tell Him better than words how dependent we are upon Him.

It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.

In the contemplation of beauty we are raised above ourselves, the passions are silenced and we are happy in the recognition of a good that we do not seek to possess.

Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit.

Nature is seen by humans through a screen of beliefs, knowledge, and purposes, and it is in terms of their images of nature, rather than of the actual structure of nature, that they act. Yet, it is upon nature itself that they do act, and it is nature itself that acts upon them, nurturing or destroying them.

Never trust a thought that didn't come by walking.

It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal.

Meditate nothing. Learn to contemplate. Contemplate glory. There will be a light. Contemplate Truth until it burns your eyes out.

...music is the living God in our bosoms.

Nonfiction, qua label, is nothing more or less than a very flexible (easily breakable) frame that allows you to pull the thing away from narrative and toward contemplation, which is all I've ever wanted.