Quotes about Meditation

The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.

One should count each day a separate life.

Augustine of Hippo said, "Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it.

It's hard to hear the gentle whisper of the Spirit amid the noise of Christendom.

The Christian life — and especially the contemplative life — is a continual discovery of Christ in new and unexpected places.

I spent most of my time talking to God more than to people.

I'm a hopeless prayer. I think somewhere in there I spend a great deal of time at it.

Where there is no experience the wise man is silent.

Meditation, prayer, covenants, ordinances, scripture study, empathy, compassion, and many different forms of the use of both conscience and imagination

My desire is that my Lord would give me broader and deeper thoughts, to feed myself with wondering at His love.

It is in deep solitude and silence that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brother and sister.

But let my due feet never fail to walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight; casting a dim religious light.