Quotes about Meditation

Lilac and star and bird twined with the chant of my soul, There in the fragrant pines and the cedars dusk and dim.

Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.

Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.

I've come down from the sky like some damned ghost, delayed too long…To the abandoned fields the trees returned and grew. They stand and grow. Time comes To them, time goes, the trees Stand; the only place They go is where they are. Those wholly patient ones… They do no wrong, and they Are beautiful. What more Could we have thought to ask?... I stand and wait for light to open the dark night. I stand and wait for prayer to come and find me here.

In solitude, we lose our loneliness.

God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour.

An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.

I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that's not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of time.

Life Lessons 6:12 — Now it came to pass in those days that He went out to the mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God. Jesus spent all night in prayer immediately before He chose the twelve disciples who would accompany Him everywhere. Whenever we make any decision—major or minor—we should follow His example and wholeheartedly seek His counsel.

We must remember that the shortest distance between our problems and their solutions is the distance between our knees and the floor.

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and privacy, and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

The Fathers of the Church say that prayer, properly understood, is nothing other than becoming a longing for God.