Quotes about Meditation

Whether we see God or only seek to see God, I believe we add to the Divine Essence when we simply fasten our minds and lives onto God.

I look singularly to myself, I am right nought;

Lifting your eyes from the things of this world is an activity that must begin WHERE YOU ARE.

gets up very early each morning and spends two or three hours in prayer and then an hour or two reading the Bible.

Prayer is waiting before Him and meditating long enough in His presence until our hearts are touched and moved with His concerns and burdens, so that we become channels for Him to work through.

We could read every book even written on prayer, but that won't make us people of prayer. We learn to pray by doing it.

And I have learned to pray.

Christian life is not a life divided between times for action and times for contemplation. No. Real social action is a way of contemplation, and real contemplation is the core of social action.

First, silence makes us pilgrims. Secondly, silence guards the fire within. Thirdly, silence teaches us to speak.

A spiritual life without prayer is like the gospel without Christ.

Just as words lose their power when they are not born out of silence, so openness loses its meaning when there is no ability to be closed.

In solitude I get rid of my scaffolding... Solitude molds self-righteous people into gentle, caring, forgiving persons who are so deeply convinced of their own great sinfulness and so fully aware of God's even greater mercy that their life itself becomes ministry.