Contemplative Life Quotes

Contemplative Life Quote of the day

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 the fellowship of friends.

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 until they somehow solve themselves. Or until life solves them for you.

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 (that is, the Hero).

The Christian life, and especially the contemplative life, is a continual discovery of Christ in new and unexpected places.

There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.

The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.

Woman's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.

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.

I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be.

Of all animals, he alone attains to the Contemplative Life.

Even the contemplative life is only an effort, Nora my dear, to hide the body so the feet won’t stick out.