Quotes about Meditation
Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October woods!
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We become what we think about all day long.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Seek not abroad, for in the inner man dwells the truth.
— St. Augustine
Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
— Tertullian
A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.
— Thomas a Kempis
Civilization changes man on the outside. Meditation softens him within, through and through.
— Henepola Gunaratana
The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky.
— Henry David Thoreau
An hour spent in the presence of God brings the purest joy known to man.
— E Stanley Jones
Let us think less of men and more of God.
— Philip James Bailey