Quotes about Meditation
Prayer is the difference between seeing with our physical eyes and seeing with our spiritual eyes. Prayer gives us a God's-eye view. It heightens our awareness and gives us a sixth sense that enables us to perceive spiritual realities that are beyond our five senses.
— Mark Batterson
Journaling is one of the most overlooked and undervalued spiritual disciplines. In my estimation, it's on a par with praying, fasting, and meditating. It's the way we document what God is doing in our lives.
— Mark Batterson
Ultimately, intellectual work of this sort is its own reward, because it is focused on the only One whose recognition is important, the One before whom all hearts are open.
— Mark Noll
The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
— John Ortberg
I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God
— Soren Kierkegaard
Live in the world as if only God and your soul were in it; then your heart will never be made captive by any earthly thing.
— John of the Cross
Silence is God's first language.
— John of the Cross
At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.
— Martin Luther
The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
— Martin Luther
Rather than walk about holy places we can thus pause in our thoughts, examine our heart, and visit the wheel promised land.
— Martin Luther
Before you pray, check to see whether you believe or doubt that you will be heard. If you are doubting or uncertain, or if you are merely trying a prayer to see what happens, your prayer won't be worth anything.
— Martin Luther
I do not always pray, nor do I always meditate on the Law of the Lord and struggle continually with sin, death, and the devil; but I put on my clothes, I sleep, I play with the children, eat, drink, etc. If all these things are done in faith, they are approved by God's judgment as having been done rightly. This
— Martin Luther