Quotes about Meditation
The first step in faith is to stop thinking about God at the time of prayer.
— Brennan Manning
Anyone who thinks that his time is too valuable to spend keeping quiet will eventually have no time for God and his brother, but only for himself and for his own follies.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Limit time to the present. Meditate upon your last hour.
— Marcus Aurelius
If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps align my desires with God's.
— Philip Yancey
If you want to know anything about community, you have to realize that the contemplative side is essential. Community without retreating and quiet time never survives.
— Henri Nouwen
Remember that you can pray any time, anywhere. Washing dishes, digging ditches, working in the office, in the shop, on the athletic field, even in prison - you can pray and know God hears!
— Billy Graham
God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. The man who would know God must give time to Him.
— AW Tozer
"We don't take sufficient time to meditate." I get up early in the morning...five o'clock, when my mind and spirit are clear and rested. Then I meditate.
— David O. McKay
Meditation refreshes our mind and helps us let go of old patterns. We spend less time dwelling on the past or worrying about the future; instead, we are focused on the present.
— Deepak Chopra
Dear God, I give this time of quiet to You. Please dissolve my thoughts of stress and fear And deliver me to the inner place Where all is peace and love. Amen.
— Marianne Williamson
Angels are thoughts of God--to pray to an angel is to look to a level of pure thinking, divine thinking, and to ask that it replace our thoughts of fear. (Page 27.)
— Marianne Williamson
The most powerful thought is a prayerful thought. When I'm praying for you, I am praying for my own peace of mind. I can only have for myself what I am willing to wish for you.
— Marianne Williamson