Quotes about Meditation

I love to live alone in my own little cottage, where I can spend much time in prayer, etc.

With the Rosary, the Christian people sits at the school of Mary and is led to contemplate the beauty on the face of Christ and to experience the depths of his love.

God speaks in the silence of the heart.

In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love.

Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.

So let this be the aim of the meditation: to turn one's innermost being into a vast empty plain, with none of that treacherous undergrowth to impede the view. So that something of 'God' can enter you, and something of 'Love', too.

Prayers are tools not for doing or getting, but for being and becoming.

All serious and good writing anticipates precisely this kind of reading-ruminative and leisurely, a dalliance with words in contrast to wolfing down information.

Meditation is the primary way in which we guard against the fragmentation of our Scripture reading into isolated oracles. Meditation enters into the coherent universe of God's revelation. Meditation is the prayerful employ of imagination in order to become friends with the text. It must not be confused with fancy or fantasy.

I am trying to teach my mind to bear the long, slow growth of the fields, and to sing of its passing while it waits.

The fusion is accomplished by reading these Scriptures slowly, imaginatively, prayerfully and obediently. This is the way the Bible has been read by most Christians for most of the Christian centuries, but it is not commonly read that way today. The reading style employed more often than not.