Quotes About Contemplation

Las personas deben sentirse libres de orar sobre todo lo que les venga a la mente mientras leen un pasaje de las Escrituras.

meditation must follow hearing and precede prayer.

How does the Word memorized become the Word applied? It happens through meditation.

no es la mera lectura de la Biblia lo que nos convierte en «un hacedor eficaz» de ella, sino la meditación.

why do we forget what we read in the Bible? Is it just a poor memory? No, it's a failure to meditate.

Si no entiendes el significado del versículo, ve al siguiente. Si el significado de ese versículo es muy claro, pero nada viene a tu mente para orar, pasa al siguiente. Solo habla con el Señor acerca de todo aquello que se te ocurre mientras lees la Palabra, sin prisa. Hazlo aun si —y esta parte del libro es, la más factible de ser mal interpretada— lo que viene a tu mente no tiene nada que ver con el texto.

The reason we come away so cold from reading the word is because we do not warm ourselves at the fire of meditation.

What value is there to reading one, three, or more chapters of Scripture only to find that after you've finished, you can't recall a thing you've read? It's better to read a small amount of Scripture and meditate on it than to read an extensive section without meditation.

To read the Bible and not to meditate was seen as an unfruitful exercise: better to read one chapter and meditate afterward than to read several chapters and not to meditate.

To pray the Bible, you simply go through the passage line by line, talking to God about whatever comes to mind as you read the text.

Open the Bible, start reading it, and pause at every verse and turn it into a prayer. John Piper

It's amazing how the world begins to change through the eyes of a cup of coffee!

Very simply, we set aside time and a quiet place to engage in inquiries that will remind us of who we really are. We do this practice as often as necessary for this understanding to become an implicit part of our being. For most of us this means practicing from the first breath to the last.

The ancient path is the path of quiet. So turn off the noise. Turn off all the electronic devices. Yes. All of them. Even turn off the music. Turn off your own thoughts…harder than it sounds, by the way! But it gets easier with practice. Just be quiet for a season. Listen for that still, small voice. God has wonderful things to say to you and about you.

To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone.

Tonight I feel like looking up, gazing deeply far away, trying to decipher my destiny in the vast universe open before me.

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.

I want to stay on the back porch while the world tilts toward sleep, until what I love misses me, and calls me in.

as if nothing had happened— as if everything mattered—What else could I do?

us to realize the brevity of life, so that we may grow in wisdom.

How Michelle spent her spare time was anybody's guess. Mostly she appeared to be marinating in a mood. "Got

But I came across a sentence in the book I was reading, HUMAN PERSONALITY, by F. W. H. Myers, which was so illuminating that I put the book aside to consider all the ideas suggested in that one penetrating hypothesis. When I picked up the book again I was a different person.

The first exercise is to spend an hour every day without saying anything except in answer to direct questions.

She looked at Farrell because there was nothing else to look at.