Top 514 Contemplate Quotes & Sayings

Under affliction in the very depths, stop and contemplate what you have to be grateful for.

Do not so contemplate eternity that you waste today.

When I was twelve years old I thought up an odd trinity: namely, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Devil. My inference wasthat God, in contemplating himself, created the second person of the godhead; but that, in order to be able to contemplate himself, he had to contemplate, and thus to create, his opposite.--With this I began to do philosophy.

If I contemplate myself as part of the Universe: what am I?

Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.

To be good Christians you have to contemplate the suffering humanity of Jesus. "How can we bear witness? Contemplate Jesus. How can we forgive? Contemplate Jesus suffering. How can we not hate our neighbor? Contemplate Jesus suffering. How can we avoid gossiping about our neighbor? Contemplate Jesus suffering. There is no other way". These virtues are the those of the Father, who forgives us always, and Our Lady, Our Mother, shares in these virtues too.

What you contemplate, you touch. What you enter into in imagination, you make yourself one with.

If you cannot observe it, then you must meditate, contemplate and imagine it. It is wondrous that if you contemplate long enough, then eventually you will see it. When you are able to see something that cannot really be seen - that is wondrous.

It doesn't help to contemplate how sad your life is. You have to move on.

I've never been able to contemplate failure. Success is everything.

The God of the Puritans...was a monster too horrible to contemplate.

When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.

I contemplate the body, dead and diseased as well as alive and healthy.

Master your breath, let the self be in bliss, contemplate on the sublime within you.

I don't relax. I sit down and contemplate all the energetic things I should do.

We become what we habitually contemplate

To lose the approbation of my dog is a thing too horrible to contemplate.

Success is seldom achieved by people who contemplate the possibility of failure

It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.

It is the peaceful one who is observant. It is peace that gives him the power to observe keenly. It is the peaceful one, therefore, who can conceive, for peace helps him to conceive. It is the peaceful who can contemplate; one who has no peace cannot contemplate properly. Therefore, all things pertaining to spiritual progress in life depend upon peace.

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

To recite the Rosary is nothing other than to contemplate the face of Christ with Mary.

Motives are better than actions. Men drift into crime. Of evil they do more than they contemplate, and of good they contemplate more than they do.

We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections; so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in all thy ways.

Here is this three-pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space. It can contemplate the meaning of infinity and it can contemplate itself contemplating on the meaning of infinity.

In the East, they contemplate the forest; in the West, they count the trees.

To contemplate is to look at shadows.

We become what we contemplate.

The two hardest things to contemplate in life ... are failure and age; those are one and the same.

Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.

And we came forth to contemplate the stars.

We couldn't even contemplate doing 'Hairspray' without a live audience.

I have actually seen people contemplate their navels

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

Chili is much improved by having had a day to contemplate its fate.

There is absolutely no inevitability, so long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.

Some jobs are just too hideous to contemplate.

But for harmony beautiful to contemplate, science would not be worth following.

Wherever you look there is so much loss and folly to contemplate.

I really believe there are some people who hate to contemplate the happiness of others.

The average reader can contemplate with considerable fortitude the sorrows and disappointments of someone else.

I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.

The Wright brothers didn't contemplate the staying on the ground of things. Alexander Graham Bell didn't contemplate the noncommunication of things. Thomas Edison didn't contemplate the darkness of things. In order to float an idea into your reality, you must be willing to do a somersault into the unconceivable and land on your feet, contemplating what you want instead of what you don't have.

Live contemplating the body. Contemplate internally and externally. Contemplate the origination of things in the body. Contemplate the dissolution of things in the body.

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

Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so.

I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature.

To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences.

When people truly open their minds, and contemplate the way in which the universe is ordered and governed, they are amazed-overwhelmed by a sense of the miraculous. When people contemplate with open minds the germination of a single seed, they are equally overwhelmed-yet numerous babies are born every day, and no-one marvels. If only people opened their minds, they would see that the birth of a baby, in which a new life is created, is a greater miracle than restoring life.

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.

Contemplate the good things in your life and be grateful for them.

Nothing is inevitable if we are willing to contemplate what is happening.

He who does not contemplate the future is destined to be overwhelmed by it.

Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn't understood it.

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

The soul has two parts, one rational and the other irrational. Let us now similarly divide the rational part, and let it be assumed that there are two rational faculties, one whereby we contemplate those things whose first principles are invariable, and one whereby we contemplate those things which admit of variation.

The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves

It was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it.

Contemplate sweetly on love, and the wisdom of God shall find you.