Quotes about Meditation

We should begin the day with the Bible, and as it comes to a close let the Word speak its wisdom to our souls. Let it be the Staff of Life upon which our spirit is nourished. Let it be the Sword of the Spirit which cuts away the evil of our lives and fashions us in His image and likeness.

Nothing will help us grow spiritually more than spending time alone with God every day, reading His Word and praying. Time alone with God is essential to our spiritual welfare.

I look upon it as a lost day when I have not had a good time over the Word of God.

Don't savor temptations; don't dwell on them or toy with them or replay them over and over in your mind. The more you think about a particular temptation, the more enticing it becomes.

While we read the Word, its message saturates our hearts, whether we are conscious of what is happening or not.

Sometimes I'm asked to list the most important steps in preparing for an evangelistic mission, and my reply is always the same: prayer . . . prayer . . . prayer.

We must repent of our prayerlessness. We must make prayer our priority. Even our churches today have gotten away from prayer meetings.

If we read the Bible as carefully and as regularly as we read the daily papers, we would be as familiar with and as well informed about God as we are about our favorite player's batting average during baseball season!

Prayer should not be merely an act, but an attitude of life.

Jesus] had only three years of public ministry, but He was never too hurried to spend hours in prayer . . . No day began or closed in which He was not in communion with His Father.

Our ministries are strengthened, sometimes more than we realize, by our devotional life.

We were created to live a life of prayer.