Quotes about Meditation

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.

Our real journey in life is interior.

Celibacy is a great help, inasmuch as it enables one to lead a life of full surrender to God.

Contemplation is the loving sense of this life, this presence and this eternity.