Quotes About Meditation

I love the hour in makeup. It gives you time to think and have a cup of coffee. It's my favorite part of the day.

I love fishing, any kind of fishing.

But this is the rule, and there is no way to free oneself of it: as soon as the thought has arisen, it must be followed to the very end.

He sat gazing into the past.

Moreover, he was loth to be thus disturbed in his sombre reverie.

I've gotta think before I act

The path to peace is paved with prayer.

Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. JOSHUA 1:8 (NIV)

The museum wall that contains the framed words of the Twenty-third Psalm, the Lord's Prayer, and John 3:16 should also display Philippians 4:4–8:

Turn your attention away from the problem, and for a few minutes celebrate God. It does you no good to obsess yourself with your trouble. The more you stare at it, the bigger it grows. Yet the more you look to God, the quicker the problem is reduced to its proper size. This was the strategy of the psalmist.

Do you see the intentionality in those words? "I will lift up my eyes." Do not meditate on the mess. You gain nothing by setting your eyes on the problem. You gain everything by setting your eyes on the Lord.

There are certain things no one can do for you. One of those is spending time with God.

Meditate on good things. "Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things" (Phil. 4:8).

La manera más rápida de extinguir el fuego de la ira es con un balde de oración.

If today starts to get hectic, take five minutes to be alone with God. If your work gets interrupted, ask God for patience to deal with the interruption and for endurance to finish the task.

Cuatro oraciones cortas describen la esencia de la oración: «Nosotros hablamos. Él escucha. Él habla. Nosotros escuchamos».

Ask the Lord for greater trust in the nearness of his presence today.

Pour lui, le pinceau est un pendule entre ciel et terre, et l'art de la calligraphie la meilleure façon de se tenir en suspens entre le monde terrestre et celui des dieux.

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

How does one grow up?" I asked a friend the other day. There was a slight pause; then she answered, "By thinking.

There is really only one possible prayer: Give me to do everything I do in the day with a sense of the sacredness of life. Give me to be in Your presence, God, even though I know it only as absence.

Let silence in. She will rarely speak or mew, She will sleep on my bed And all I have ever been Either false or true Will live again in my head. For it is now or not As old age silts the stream, To shove away the clutter, To untie every knot, To take the time to dream, To come back to still water.

I began the day with Vaughn Williams' Mass sung by the King's College choir. There are days when only religious music will do. Under the light of eternity things, the daily trivia, the daily frustrations, all away. It is all a matter of getting to the center of the beam.

I began the day with Vaughn Williams' Mass sung by the King's College choir. There are days when only religious music will do. Under the light of eternity things, the daily trivia, the daily frustrations, all fall away. It is all a matter of getting to the center of the beam.