Quotes about 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.

Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.

My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the psalms.

Every Catholic faced with a great need starts a novena. There is good precedent for this. The apostles stayed in the Cenacle for nine days after the Ascension of Jesus Christ, praying for the descent of the Holy Spirit. That was the first novena. Novenas are started nine days before the feast of some favorite saint or they can be made at any time.

As you spend time with God, you'll begin to think like Him, which will allow you to pray according to His heart and will.

A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive.

I try to spend a little bit of time on my knees every day, but it all begins for me with cherishing the dignity, the worth, the value of every human life.

To be a Christian and to pray are one and the same thing; it is a matter that cannot be left to our caprice. It is a need, a kind of breathing necessary to life.

Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.

Must manage your thought life daily and then you can manage your life.