Contemplation Quote by Pope Gregory I Download Open image “The greatness of contemplation can be given to none but those who love.” — Pope Gregory I ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contemplation Given Greatness Meditation Saint
Contemplation is the loving sense of this life, this presence and this eternity. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
What distinguishes - in both senses of that word - contemplation is rather this: it is a knowing which is inspired by love. "Without… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
“Contemplation means rest, suspension of activity, withdrawal into the mysterious interior solitude in which the soul is absorbed in the immense and fruitful silence… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
... the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of the soul. — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
Contemplation is life itself, fully awake, fully active, and fully aware that it is alive. It is spiritual wonder. It is spontaneous awe at… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In the contemplation of beauty we are raised above ourselves, the passions are silenced and we are happy in the recognition of a good… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Our greatness is found not by chasing our dreams of a perfect life nor from running away from what scares us the most, but… — Edwin Mamerto Copy Share Image
“The contemplative life remains freely available to us through our choices—what we read and buy, how we commit to leisure and self-improvement, the passing… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
I was obliged, at last, to come to the conclusion that the contemplation of nature alone is not sufficient to fill the human heart… — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
He who is required by the necessity of his position to speak the highest things is compelled by the same necessity to exemplify the… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
I despise the proper constructions and cases, because I think it very unfitting that the words of the celestial oracle should be restricted by… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
If we are, in fact, now occupied in good deeds, we should not attribute the strength with which we are doing them to ourselves.… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
Now if the wearing of fine and precious robes were not a fault, word of God would never have so carefully expressed this. For… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
“He must, therefore, be the model for everyone. He must be devoted entirely to the example of good living. He must be dead to… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
“Necessity demands that one should carefully examine who it is that comes to the position of spiritual authority; and coming solemnly to this point,… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
“Pope Gregory believed that successful pastoral leadership required a balance between the contemplation of the isolated ascetic and the action of the well-trained administrator.” — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
There are in truth three states of the converted: the beginning, the middle, and the perfection. In the beginning they experience the charms of… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
“For it is no doubt impossible to eradicate everything at once from their obstinate minds, because he who endeavours to reach the highest place… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
“The spiritual director should not reduce his attention to the internal life because of external occupations, nor should he relinquish his care for external… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep, inexpressible certitude… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“The problem with the contemplative life was that there was no end to contemplation, no fixed time limit after which thought had to be… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Poetical taste is the only magician whose wand is not broken. No hand, except its own, can dissolve the fabric of beauty in which… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Catholicity seized on man... and the mystics, transcending all, taught him to ascend on high with the wings of contemplation the Ladder of Jacob… — Juan Donoso Cortes Copy Share Image
To enter into the realm of contemplation one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance to a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The whole of life is a journey toward youthful old age, toward self-contemplation, love, gaiety, and, in a fundamental sense, the most gratifying time… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
“Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loop-holes, as it were, in that ordinary… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence of emotion… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
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