Quotes about Meditation
We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer.Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God,setting aside all irrelevant thoughts.
— John Calvin
He who neglects to pray alone and in private, however assiduously he frequents public meetings, there gives his prayers to the wind.
— John Calvin
He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.
— John Calvin
We unlearn the art of speaking well when we cease to speak with God.
— John Calvin
On the other hand, it is evident that man never attains to a true self-knowledge until he have previously contemplated the face of God, and come down after such contemplation to look into himself.
— John Calvin
On the other hand, it is well known that a person never comes to the clear knowledge of himself unless he has first contemplated the face of the Lord, and afterward descended to consider himself.
— John Calvin
For the one who has learned to regard God in everything he does is at the same time being drawn away from every vain thought.
— John Calvin
Fasting of the body is food for the soul.
— St. John Chrysostom
Since I am coming to that holy room,Where, with thy choir of saints forevermore,I shall be made thy music; as I comeI tune the instrument here at the door,And what I must do then, think here before.
— John Donne
I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in and invite God and his angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
— John Donne
The crisis of our prayer life is that our minds may be filled with ideas of God while our hearts remain far from him.
— Henri Nouwen
We need to clear our minds of bad thoughts.
— Paulo Coelho