Contemplatives Quotes

#1. We are called to be contemplatives..by seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, everywhere, all the time ...

Mother Teresa

#2. We become contemplatives when God discovers Himself in us.

Thomas Merton

#3. All artist are of necessity in some measure contemplatives.

Evelyn Underhill

#4. We are not social workers. We are contemplatives in the heart of the world.

Mother Teresa

#5. Contemplatives are not likely to become gamblers, or procurers, or drunkards; they do not as a rule preach intolerance, or make war; do not find it necessary to rob, swindle or grind the faces of the poor.

Aldous Huxley

#6. Monastic contemplatives have staked out a clearly limited area to be transformed by contemplation: the monastery. Lay contemplatives face the challenge of transforming the whole world.

David Steindl-Rast

#7. Though we are involved in social work, our goal is to be contemplatives at the heart of the world. We are with Jesus twenty-four hours a day. We do everything for Jesus. We do it all unto Jesus.

Mother Teresa

#8. Chefs don't use white pepper just to avoid spoiling the whiteness of pommes puree or bechamel. It has a more peppery aroma, with sharpness and sweetness, too.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#9. Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing.

John Fletcher

#10. I like to change outfits multiple times a day.

Stacey Bendet

#11. At this auspicious period, the United States came into existence as a Nation; and if their Citizens should not be completely free and happy, the fault will be entirely their own.

George Washington

#12. I don't like to sit back and gloat, because the world is fragile. Life is fragile, so I never really gloat.

Donald Trump

#13. I've always wanted to race cars, ever since I was a young boy, as I think a lot of guys have.

Paul Walker

#14. Nothing is something after all. There's math that proves this, of course, but also observations. I know it seems like math and observations are opposites.

Emily Fridlund