Quotes about Meditation

But the main reason why the psalms work so well in prayer is that the very purpose God put them in his Word to us is for us to put them in our words to him.

Pray over the Scriptures. Christians just setting out on the path of prayer sometimes pray for everything they can think of, glance at their watches, and discover they have been at it for all of three or four minutes. This experience sometimes generates feelings of defeat, discouragement, even despair. A great way to begin to overcome this problem is to pray through various biblical passages.

The first thing the child of God has to do morning by morning is to obtain food for his inner man.

Meditation must follow hearing and precede prayer.

How does the Word memorized become the Word applied? It happens through meditation.

Why do we forget what we read in the Bible? Is it just a poor memory? No, it's a failure to meditate.

Take every word as spoken to yourselves. When the word thunders against sin, think thus: "God means my sins;" when it presseth any duty, "God intends me in this." Many put off Scripture from themselves, as if it only concerned those who lived in the time when it was written; but if you intend to profit by the word, bring it home to yourselves: a medicine will do no good, unless it be applied.

The reason we come away so cold from reading the word is because we do not warm ourselves at the fire of meditation.

What value is there to reading one, three, or more chapters of Scripture only to find that after you've finished, you can't recall a thing you've read? It's better to read a small amount of Scripture and meditate on it than to read an extensive section without meditation.

To read the Bible and not to meditate was seen as an unfruitful exercise: better to read one chapter and meditate afterward than to read several chapters and not to meditate.

To pray the Bible, you simply go through the passage line by line, talking to God about whatever comes to mind as you read the text.

When there is little awareness of real need, there is little real prayer.