Quotes About Meditation

Prayer is sacred act for all seasons.

Prayer opens the window of heaven.

When asked, 'What is more important: praying or reading the Bible?' I ask, 'What is more important: breathing in or breathing out?

The power of prayer is beyond the understanding of men.

Prayer for today:Dear Lord, the eternal ecstatic joy within me is often turned into bondage by my labeling mind. Please, give me some meditative wisdom.

Learning to pray doesn't offer us a less busy life

The elixir for the vexed human spirit is quiet thinking and contemplation.

Only if we live consciously, we can die consciously.

We are what we think about and meditate on. Look around people! America is a buffet of violence

Let thy breath be, a grace of thanks.

Most of the time it may seem like I'm staring into nothingness, but there's a whole world playing out in my head.

There are great reasons to fear what happens if you don't create a robust social schedule for the rest of your life or practice mindfulness meditation for the rest of your life.

Others apart sat on a hill retir'd,In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd highOf Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate,Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute,And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost.

Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.

Solitude sometimes is best society.

Contemplation places us in a purity and radiance which is far above our understanding.

Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.

Silence. Complete and utter silence.

Your anger is like a violent storm, Cade. Your emotions swirl, churning inside of you. You have to find a place of peace within that anger. An "eye" in the storm. You must center yourself within that calm eye -- in the Light. You think you cannot know peace, but the possibility of peace is all around you. If a thought or memory intrudes on your meditation, it must be like the shadow of a cloud passing across a moon. Let it go.

Knowledge does not enter the unquiet mind.

We need to attend diligently to the state of our soul, and to deal fervently and effectively with God about it.

Taking time apart. The first and perhaps most obvious examples are the occasions when Jesus explicitly pursued time apart. These came in the form of stepping back and away from the outward ministry and into a space of reflection, silence, and walking—being alone. We may envision these as the "times in the desert." What they point to, at essence, are spaces to reconnect with the deeper inner voice, that spirit of purpose and vocation, and time to breathe, pray, and reflect.

Thinking is one of the important ways that we put the fuel of knowledge on the fires of worship and service to the world.

the main reason God has given us minds is that we might seek out and find all the reasons that exist for treasuring him in all things and above all things.