Quotes about Meditation
We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
— Calvin Coolidge
spiritual exercises whereby to conquer oneself, and order one's life, without being influenced in one's decision by any inordinate affection.
— Ignatius of Loyola
Self-emptiness prepares us for spiritual fullness.
— Richard Sibbes
Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.
— John Henry Newman
Spiritual meditation is the pathway to Divinity. It is a mystic ladder which reaches from earth to heaven, from error to Truth, from pain to peace.
— James Allen
Most of us are far too busy for our own spiritual good.
— Bill Hybels
The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
True spiritual life depends not on probing our feelings and thoughts from dawn to dusk but on 'looking off' to the Savior!
— Watchman Nee
Without solitude it is virtually impossible to live a spiritual life. ...We do not take the spiritual life seriously if we do not set aside some time to be with God and listen to him.
— Henri Nouwen
When you let go of your attention for a little while, do not think you may recover it whenever you please.
— Epictetus
One night alone in prayer might make us new men, changed from poverty of soul to spiritual wealth, from trembling to triumphing.
— Charles Spurgeon
Unless there is a spiritual renaissance, the world will know no peace.
— Dag Hammarskjold