Quotes about Meditation

Whenever you are popular just pause and see the reflect.

We were on the north shore. There, the rocks on the bottom are sometimes gray, sometimes white. This gives the marvelous transparency of the water a fuller advantage than it has elsewhere on the lake. We usually pushed out a hundred yards or so from shore, and then lay down on the thwarts, in the sun, and let the boat drift by the hour whither it would. We seldom talked. It

I have hardly had time to think over all that you have told me. It's a big thing for a man to have to understand and to decide at one sitting. I should like to have a quiet hour by myself to make up my mind.

It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves.

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

In order to know God, we must often think of Him; and when we come to love Him, we shall then also think of Him often, for our heart will be with our treasure.

Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.

O! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.

Meditation is a serious intention of the mind whereby wee come to search out the truth, and settle it effectually upon the heart.

The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

We must free ourselves from the prison of everyday affairs and politics.