He pauses now and again to contemplate God, New York City and middle-child syndrome.
In 1224 Francis retired to the wilderness with a small number of his followers to contemplate God.
Most of us size our little worlds to hold enough distractions to keep us from having to contemplate Being and God.
In this way, the mind is withdrawn from worldly interests to passively and constantly contemplate God.
Meditating on God's word leads us forward into contemplating God himself.
As we contemplate God in the beauty of his holiness, he shapes our hearts and our desires to what gives him delight.
This means that we contemplate God in our many different moods and emotional conditions.
They only uttered Jesus' name by which they were contemplating God.
The intelligence contemplates God directly and beholds in Him the truths or "objective ideas" of which our knowledge is a weak reflection.
It invites to "unlimited generosity" in contemplating God, yet going down to the level of many details.