Quotes about Meditation

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.

The Christian life, and especially the contemplative life, is a continual discovery of Christ in new and unexpected places.

Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.

Far from the world I walk, and from all care.

When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.

Take it that you have died today, and your life's story is ended; and henceforward regard what future time may be given you as uncovenanted surplus, and live it out in harmony with nature.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

Getting up early in the morning to fix my eyes on Jesus through prayer and reading His Word is like setting

Why worry when you can pray?

Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself!