contemplation

• The monks were exceedingly numerous; had ceased to be men of prayer and contemplation, as in the days of Benedict and Bernard; and might be seen frequenting places of demoralizing excitement, devoted to pleasure, and enriched by inglorious gains But the evils which the church encouraged were more dangerous than the vices of its members. —  A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges
• We shall then certainly be led, in the domain of spiritual life, to a kind of contemplation which differs from that of the naturalist as geology differs from pure physics and biology from chemistry. —  Christentum als mystische Tatsache und die Mysterien des Altertums. English
• This contemplation is for him a refuge, into which the recollection of his persecutors can never follow him; in which, living in thought with man reinstated in the rights and the dignity of his nature, he forgets man tormented and corrupted by greed, by base fear, by envy; it is here that he truly abides with his fellows, in an elysium that his reason has known how to create for itself, and that his love for humanity adorns with all purest delights. —  Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Essay 3: Condorcet
• Such, too, seems to be the state of those orders of Angels whose life is said to consist in contemplation--for what is contemplation but a resting in the thought of God to the forgetfulness of self? —  Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII (of 8)
• This special state is peculiar to common lovers, who are known to have no eyes for anything except for the contemplation, actual or inward, of one human form which for them contains the soul of the whole world in all its beauty, perfection, variety and infinity. —  Chance A Tale in Two Parts

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