Contemplative Life Quotes
20 quotes by 14 authors
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I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. It's wonderful…
— Elizabeth Janeway
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In general, it can be said that no contemplative life is possible without ascetic self-discipline. One must learn to survive without the habit-forming luxuries which…
— Thomas Merton
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In Radical Optimism, Beatrice Bruteau sets forth a deep and shining vision of spirituality, one that guides the reader into the contemplative life and the…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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In the active life all the vices are first of all to be removed by the practice of good works, so that in the contemplative…
— Isidore of Seville
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Man's activity consists in either a making or doing. Both of these aspects of the active life depend for their correction upon the contemplative life…
— Ananda Coomaraswamy
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There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.
— Thomas Merton
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One of the strange laws of the contemplative life is that in it you do not sit down and solve problems: you bear with them…
— Thomas Merton
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You know, Monsieur, that, although the contemplative life is more perfect than the active life, it is not, however, more so than one which embraces…
— Vincent de Paul
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The Christian life, and especially the contemplative life, is a continual discovery of Christ in new and unexpected places.
— Thomas Merton
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Woman's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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The onset of this second movement is characterized by the falling away of self and coming upon "that" which remains when it is gone. But…
— Bernadette Roberts
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I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be.
— Elizabeth Janeway
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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are…
— Thomas Aquinas
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For in order that man may do well, whether in the works of the active life, or in those of the contemplative life, he needs…
— Thomas Aquinas
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The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad pulls - women's…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Even the contemplative life is only an effort, Nora my dear, to hide the body so the feet won’t stick out.
— Djuna Barnes
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I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.
— Alice Walker
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The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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Necessary for a contemplative life: a cup of understanding, a barrel of love, and an ocean of patience.
— Ritu Ghatourey
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He was somebody who made me think, I suppose, about the contemplative life. I've always been a city fellow, but I've often had vague thoughts…
— Derek Jacobi
Who Wrote These Contemplative Life Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 20 Contemplative Life Quotes as follows: