Quotes about Meditation

Getting out of the way and listening is not something that comes easily, either in art or in prayer.

If you are not willing to sacrifice time to get alone with him, and to give him time everyday to work in you, and to keep up the link of connection between you and himself, he cannot give you that blessing of his unbroken fellowship.

The reality is that a heart desire for prayer is lacking. Many do not know how to spend half an hour with God! It is not that they absolutely do not pray; they may pray every day—but they have no joy in prayer. Joy is the sign that God is everything to you.

Every one must have some solitary spot where he can be alone with his God.

Lord! teach me to tarry with Thee in the school, and give Thee time to train me. May a deep sense of my ignorance, of the wonderful privilege and power of prayer, of the need of the Holy Spirit as the Spirit of prayer, lead me to cast away my thoughts of what I think I know, and make me kneel before Thee in true teachableness and poverty of spirit.

Be silent before God and let Him bless you.

Not to be occupied with thy sin, but to be occupied with God, brings deliverance from self.

Do not try to stir and arouse faith from within. How often I have tried to do that, and made a fool of myself! You cannot stir up faith from the depths of your heart. Leave your heart, and look into the face of Christ, and listen to what He tells you about how He will keep you.

And so He teaches us two lessons of deep importance about prayer. The one is that faith needs a life of prayer in which to grow and keep strong. The other is that prayer needs fasting for its full and perfect development.

Let this, then, be our first lesson: the presence of God is the chief thing, in our devotions.

Let not the interest of religious thoughts and exercises deceive you; they very often take the place of waiting upon God.

The lower and the emptier a man lays himself before God, the speedier and the fuller will be the inflow of divine glory.