Quotes about Meditation
My biggest concern for this generation is your inability to focus, especially in prayer.
— Francis Chan
The true believer can no more live without prayer, than without food day by day.
— George Whitefield
God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour.
— Charles Stanley
Our Lord is the ground from whom our prayer grows and in his love and grace he himself gives us our prayers.
— Julian of Norwich
with all prayer (Eph. 6:18)" All sorts of prayer- public, private, mental, vocal. Do not be diligent in one kind of prayer and negligent in others... let us use all.
— John Wesley
The more deeply we grow into the psalms and the more often we pray them as our own, the more simple and rich will our prayer become.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The sky is my prayer, the birds are my prayer, the wind in the trees is my prayer, for God is all in all.
— Thomas Merton
When we become too glib in prayer we are most surely talking to ourselves.
— AW Tozer
I have so much to do that I spend several hours in prayer before I am able to do it.
— John Wesley
Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.
— Laurence Sterne
It's not my business to try and make God think like me... but to try, in prayer and penitence, to think like God.
— AW Tozer
I've practiced centering prayer. I've contemplatively prayed. I've prayed liturgically... I've benefited from each, and I still do. In ways you'll see, elements of each style are still with me.
— Larry Crabb