Quotes about Meditation

Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of necessity will be our dreams.

Cultivating quietness is a missing discipline today...the quietness needed to nurture an inner life hid in Christ.

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

Throughout all history, the great wise men and teachers, philosophers, and prophets have disagreed with one another on many different things. It is only on this one point that they are in complete and unanimous agreement. We become what we think about.

If we are to begin to push back against this, we have to understand how meditating on God's Word is central to worldview formation.

The discipline of prayer actually guards our hearts and minds in Christ.

Dedicating ourselves to Scripture reading, prayer, and fasting enables us to reset our minds, steering us away from the road toward outrage and onto the path of peace.

All of us are busy. Life isn't slowing down, it's speeding up, and our Daytimers reflect the fact. Yet that is precisely why we need to take time to pray.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Form is emptiness and the very emptiness is form; emptiness does not differ from form, nor does form differ from emptiness; whatever is form, that is emptiness, whatever is emptiness, that is form.

A short prayer pierces heaven.

Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest [the Scriptures].