Quotes About Meditation

Though both preaching and teaching are important, nothing really takes the place of digging into the Word on our own. As we personally and privately study, memorize, and meditate on the Scriptures, intimacy with Jesus is fostered as the Holy Spirit changes our minds and applies the Word to our souls (John 14:26; 1 Cor. 2:9–10).

Surely the principles as well as the practice of Christianity are simple and lead not to meditation only, but to action.

by praying "his" prayers—the Psalms of the Old Testament, which Jesus prayed—we effectively piggyback on them all the way to heaven.

From the beginning of his time until the end, Bonhoeffer maintained the daily discipline of scriptural meditation and prayer he had been practicing for more than a decade. Each morning he meditated for at least half an hour on a verse of Scripture. And he interceded for his friends and relatives, and for his brothers in the Confessing Church who were on the front lines or in concentration camps.

He said] when you read the Bible17, you must think that here and now God is speaking with me.

Heard the Bible read two hours—Pascal one hour and a quarter—meditation one hour and a quarter…. Pitt called and commended Butler's Analogy—resolved to write to him, and discover to him what I am occupied about: this will save me much embarrassment, and I hope give me more command both of my time and conduct.

If a Christian may act in the several relations of life, must he seclude himself for all to become so? Surely the principles as well as the practice of Christianity are simple, and lead not to meditation only but to action.

He well knew his mind's natural tendency to be endlessly on a thousand subjects at once, to flit from this to that and to the next thing to no particular purpose--indeed, he called it his "butterfly mind.

It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.

Afterward, she'd do yoga on the front lawn in the mizzling rain, lying on her back and then lifting herself slowly into an arch, like a demolition shown in reverse. The pose had mysterious names: Downward Dog, Sun Salute. Once I found her lying on the grass in a random-looking sprawl, the palms of her hands turned up to the drizzle. "The Corpse," she explained later. "Feels wonderful.

brain is like a shortwave radio, mostly static that occasionally finds the station, but even then the sound isn't always clear.

As Whitehead has observed, "No Roman lost his life because he was absorbed in the contemplation of a mathematical diagram.

Part of making yourself a priority is spending time alone.

Why does a man live? -In order to think about it...

This position of detachment is a primary condition of consciousness, and it is the essence of its functioning to intensify and differentiate this attitude still further.

Experience yourself in silence.

Practicing yoga during the day is a matter of keeping your eyes on the road and one ear turned toward the infinite.

Modern man is a hard driven nomad without any stability, not (as the Bible has it) a wanderer or a pilgrim, but a refugee-an escapist. Instead of meditation and reflection there is only speed, fear and "distraction.

Shut up, I'm thinking! -Jayfeather (Night Whispers)

what were you thinking?

Leafpaw, you and your sister aren't kits anymore. And you have chosen a very different path from hers, to be a medicine cat. You will always be friends, but you can't do everything together, and the sooner you both accept that, the better.

Puddleshine

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