Quotes about Meditation
The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry.
— Kathleen Norris
But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in your power whenever you choose to retire into yourself.
— Marcus Aurelius
It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.
— William James
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
— Soren Kierkegaard
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
— John Bunyan
He prays best who does not know that he is praying.
— St. Anthony of Padua
I live in the spirit of prayer. I pray as I walk about, when I lie down and when I rise up. And the answers are always coming.
— George Muller
A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.
— Soren Kierkegaard
The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.
— John Bunyan
Prayer is climbing up into the heart of God.
— Martin Luther
Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be content with a superficial knowledge.
— David Brainerd
Only a life of prayer and meditation will render a vessel ready for the Master's use.
— George Muller