Quotes about Meditation

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.

How little we understand that we need enough time with God for His light to shine into the depths of our hearts and fill our lives.

To know how to speak to God is more than knowing how to speak to man. Not power with men, but power with God is the first thing. Jesus loves to teach us how to pray.

It is only by continuously fixing the mind for a time on some one of the lessons of faith, that the believer is gradually helped to take and thoroughly assimilate them.

Though in its beginnings prayer is so simple that the feeble child can pray, yet it is at the same time the highest and holiest work to which man can rise.

We learn a great lesson when we come to understand that the deliberate quieting of our souls and minds before God is the secret of true adoration.

He tells you that when you go to private prayer, your first thought must be: Thy Father who is in secret; the Father waits for me there.