Quotes about Meditation
My desire is that my Lord would give me broader and deeper thoughts, to feed myself with wondering at His love.
— Samuel Rutherford
It is in deep solitude and silence that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brother and sister.
— Thomas Merton
But let my due feet never fail to walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight; casting a dim religious light.
— John Milton
I love to live alone in my own little cottage, where I can spend much time in prayer, etc.
— David Brainerd
The flowering of love is meditation.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
With the Rosary, the Christian people sits at the school of Mary and is led to contemplate the beauty on the face of Christ and to experience the depths of his love.
— Pope John Paul II
God speaks in the silence of the heart.
— Mother Teresa
In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love.
— CS Lewis
Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.
— Robert Frost
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.
— Joseph Campbell
So let this be the aim of the meditation: to turn one's innermost being into a vast empty plain, with none of that treacherous undergrowth to impede the view. So that something of 'God' can enter you, and something of 'Love', too.
— Etty Hillesum
Prayers are tools not for doing or getting, but for being and becoming.
— Eugene Peterson