Quotes about Meditation

Believe me, you have too many practices already. What is needed is rather a progressive inner simplification. Too many people identify spiritual prowess with being perpetually busy heaping meditation upon meditation, prayer upon prayer, reading upon reading instead of learning from the simple souls the great secret of knowing how, from time to time, to hold yourself back a little in peace and silence, attentive before God.5

People who don't think shouldn't talk.

there is a vast difference between talking about God and listening to a God who talks to you.

Solitude is sometimes best society.

Solitude is sometimes the best society.

It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.

Silence is what causes most of humanity's problems.

If we do not fill our mind with prayer, it will fill itself with anxieties, worries, temptations, resentments, and unwelcome memories.

The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts.

Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.

Remember God more often than you breathe.

Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.