Quotes about Meditation

May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer. (Ps. 19:14)

Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words became a delight to me and the joy of my heart. Jeremiah 15:16

Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns. Psalm 139:23

He awakens Me each morning; He awakens My ear to listen like those being instructed, Isaiah 50:4

The challenge of a tamed tongue is so great that we'd be wise to give it daily attention in prayer.

Consider what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in everything. 2 Timothy 2:7

I have found, however, that I sense more power in prayer when I speak them out loud.

I will remember the deeds of the LORD; yes, I will remember your miracles of long ago. I will meditate on all your works and consider all your mighty deeds. Your ways, O God, are holy. What god is so great as our God? You are the God who performs miracles; you display your power among the peoples.

I will meditate on Your precepts and think about Your ways. I will delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word. Psalm 119:15—16

For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of 'keeping company with God.'

One of the greatest attacks of the enemy is to make you busy, to make you hurried, to make you noisy, to make you distracted, to fill the people of God and the Church of God with so much noise and activity that there is no room for prayer. There is no room for being alone with God. There is no room for silence. There is no room for meditation.

Many Christians have so busied themselves with programs and activities that they no longer know how to be silent and meditate on God's word or recognize the mysteries that are in the Person of Christ.