Quotes about Meditation
Prayer turns theology into experience.
— Timothy Keller
If we rely on the Holy Spirit, we shall find that our prayers become more and more inarticulate; and when they are inarticulate, reverence grows deeper and deeper.
— Oswald Chambers
The more we can give in our silent prayer, the more we can give in our active life.
— Mother Teresa
Worship and intercession must go together, the one is impossible without the other. Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray.
— Oswald Chambers
The more you praise, the more vigor you will have for prayer; and the more you pray, the more matter you will have for praise.
— JI Packer
Prayer draws us near to our own souls.
— Herman Melville
If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer.
— Philip Yancey
If by losing the spirit of prayer, you mean losing the heavenly sensations of deep devotion, I am afraid that does not matter a scrap.
— Evelyn Underhill
There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . . . it quiets a man down like saying his prayers.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.
— Johannes Tauler
It is a tremendously hard thing to pray aright, yea, it is verily the science of all sciences.
— Martin Luther
What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course of our whole life, than the practice of prayer!
— St. Augustine