Quotes about Meditation

I don't know who said it first, but the following is good advice: If you do nothing but read your Bible, you will dry up; if you only pray, you will blow up; but if you read your Bible and pray, you will grow up.

If you walk in the Spirit, know your Bible, and spend sufficient time alone with God, your theology will take care of itself.

Sometimes I wake up before dawn, and I love sitting up in the middle of the bed with all the lights off, pitch-black dark, and talking to the Father, with no interruptions and nothing that reminds me that there's anything in life but me and Him.

I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that's not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of time.

When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

I read the Bible every day, study it, and share with my wife the blessings of faith.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those most sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.

Of that ineffable essence which we call Spirit, he that thinks most, will say least.

And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.