Quotes about Meditation
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
No great spiritual event befalls those who do not summon it.
- Elbert Hubbard
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's no greater lifestyle and no greater happiness than that of having a continual conversation with God.
- Brother Lawrence
To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
- Oscar Wilde
Nurture your mind with great thoughts
- Benjamin Disraeli