Quotes about Meditation

I myself am part of the weather and part of the climate and part of the place … It is certainly part of my life of prayer.

The fragrance of religious and spiritual life is much finer and subtler than that of the rose.

As we meditate on Christ's life, we find strength for our own.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.

Replace worry with prayer. Make the decision to pray whenever you catch yourself worrying.

He forced his mind clear of other thoughts and waited. Stillness, he had learned, did not come naturally. He practiced it. Sometimes, as he waited, he heard the Lord's voice coursing through his spirit almost audibly. Other times he heard nothing, but he felt filled up and satisfied and understood.

Sinful self and all its wretched failures should be sufficiently noticed so as to keep us in the dust before God. Christ and His great salvation should be contemplated so as to lift us above self and fill the soul with thanksgiving.

This work of keeping the heart is the hardest of all. "To shuffle over religious duties with a loose and heedless spirit, will cost no great pains; but to set thyself before the Lord, and tie up thy loose and vain thoughts to a constant and serious attendance upon Him: this will cost something!

I read the Bible every day.

I've said to others that there were places I had forgotten about that were just so powerful. I've read the Gospels many times, but it's been a while since I've read through a whole book.

In the lonely hours, I have spent a great deal of time thinking about eternal things. I have contemplated the comforting doctrines of eternal life.

The truth touches us. We try to be guided by this contact.