Quotes about Meditation
Sometimes you have to leave the world in order to learn how to live in it. Thoreau shunned society, went to the woods, and came back with a new understanding of life.
— Henry David Thoreau
The Bible and studying the Bible has been an important part of my life.
— Jimmy Carter
Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.
— John Milton
Solitude sometimes is best society.
— John Milton
Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.
— John of the Cross
We need to attend diligently to the state of our soul, and to deal fervently and effectively with God about it.
— John Owen
Thinking is one of the important ways that we put the fuel of knowledge on the fires of worship and service to the world.
— John Piper
the main reason God has given us minds is that we might seek out and find all the reasons that exist for treasuring him in all things and above all things.
— John Piper
Let us labor to memorize the Word of God--for worship and for warfare. If we do not carry it in our heads, we cannot savor it in our hearts or wield it in the Spirit.
— John Piper
1) Singing can help us remember words, which means that we should use melodies that are effective, sing words that God wants us to remember
— John Piper
God's gift of understanding is through thinking, not instead of thinking.
— John Piper
O come with me to the Word of God! If this way of carrying it with you does not work for you, then find your own way. Whatever it costs, do not read it and leave it. It transforms us by its presence in our minds, not by staying on the bedside table.
— John Piper