Quotes about Meditation
The more you praise, the more vigor you will have for prayer; and the more you pray, the more matter you will have for praise.
- JI Packer
Prayer draws us near to our own souls.
- Herman Melville
If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer.
- Philip Yancey
If by losing the spirit of prayer, you mean losing the heavenly sensations of deep devotion, I am afraid that does not matter a scrap.
- Evelyn Underhill
There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . . . it quiets a man down like saying his prayers.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.
- Johannes Tauler
It is a tremendously hard thing to pray aright, yea, it is verily the science of all sciences.
- Martin Luther
What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course of our whole life, than the practice of prayer!
- St. Augustine
Use "breath prayers" throughout the day, as many Christians have done for centuries. You choose a brief sentence or a simple phrase that can be repeated to Jesus in one breath: "You are with me."
- Rick Warren
Prayer is in all things, in all gestures.
- Mother Teresa
Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere.
- Victor Hugo