Faces Quote by Mother Teresa

Seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, all the time, and his hand in every happening; This is what it means to be…

— Mother Teresa

We become contemplatives when God discovers Himself in us.

— Thomas Merton

Contemplation is a very dangerous activity. It not only brings us face to face with God. It brings us, as well, face to face…

— Joan D. Chittister

To be contemplative we must become converted to the consciousness that makes us one with the universe, in tune with the cosmic voice of…

— Joan D. Chittister

Our life of contemplation shall retain the following characteristics: —missionary: by going out physically or in spirit in search of souls all over the…

— Mother Teresa

Finding God in all things is not an 'empirical eureka.' When we desire to encounter God, we would like to verify him immediately by…

— Pope Francis

“Contemplation, as it has come to be understood in the Christian tradition, is a return to the paradisiacal state of union with God, which…

— William Shannon

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

— Aldous Huxley

“There are times...when we are in the midst of life-moments of confrontation with birth or death, or moments of beauty when nature or love…

— Mary Doria Russell

We have to do with God, to whom no one can look without the need of being good waking up in his heart; to…

— George MacDonald

Contemplation is the loving sense of this life, this presence and this eternity.

— Thomas Merton

We are called by God to do theology, that is, to live our lives with a moment-by-moment consciousness of God.

— Paul David Tripp