Quotes about Meditation

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.

Surely the principles as well as the practice of Christianity are simple and lead not to meditation only, but to action.

By praying "his" prayers—the Psalms of the Old Testament, which Jesus prayed—we effectively piggyback on them all the way to heaven.

From the beginning of his time until the end, Bonhoeffer maintained the daily discipline of scriptural meditation and prayer he had been practicing for more than a decade. Each morning he meditated for at least half an hour on a verse of Scripture. And he interceded for his friends and relatives, and for his brothers in the Confessing Church who were on the front lines or in concentration camps.