Quotes about Meditation
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
God goes with me everywhere, because God is in my mind.
— Marianne Williamson
We heal through noticing, and prayer.
— Marianne Williamson
altar to God is the human mind. To "desecrate the altar" is to fill it with non-loving thoughts.
— Marianne Williamson