Quotes about Meditation
God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
— Teresa of Avila
George Müller once said, "I live in the spirit of prayer. I pray as I walk about, when I lie down and when I rise up.
— Stephen Kendrick
It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer
— Oswald Chambers
The life of a Christian should be a meditation how to unloose his affection from inferior things. He will easily die that is dead before in affection.
— Richard Sibbes
Let him never cease from prayer who has once begun it, be his life ever so wicked; for prayer is the way to amend it, and without prayer such amendment will be much more difficult.
— Teresa of Avila
That is God's call to us - simply to be people who are content to live close to him and to renew the kind of life in which the closeness is felt and experienced.
— Thomas Merton
Think higher, feel deeper.
— Elie Wiesel
If you take care of your mind, you take care of the world.
— Arianna Huffington
When we are all mind, things can get rigid.
— Arianna Huffington
And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.
— Aristotle
It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.
— Aristotle
I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been a part of my Christianity at all.
— Anne Lamott