Quotes About Meditation

Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words became a delight to me and the joy of my heart. Jeremiah 15:16

Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns. Psalm 139:23

He awakens Me each morning; He awakens My ear to listen like those being instructed, Isaiah 50:4

Pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. Matthew 6:6

The challenge of a tamed tongue is so great that we'd be wise to give it daily attention in prayer.

Consider what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in everything. 2 Timothy 2:7

I have found, however, that I sense more power in prayer when I speak them out loud.

I will remember the deeds of the LORD; yes, I will remember your miracles of long ago. I will meditate on all your works and consider all your mighty deeds. Your ways, O God, are holy. What god is so great as our God? You are the God who performs miracles; you display your power among the peoples.

Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart." LUKE 2:19

I will meditate on Your precepts and think about Your ways. I will delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word. Psalm 119:15–16

I love the idea of feeding on God's faithfulness. Might we say, in fact, that the more we feed on God's faithfulness, the fatter of faith we become? How's that for a diet reversal? I'm thrilled to know we can binge on God without guilt.

Sometimes we pray in our heads and we never get a real opportunity to solidify what it is that we're praying for or what we're praying about. So once you write it down, it's like a flow. It comes out and you solidify the thought or the idea or the request.

For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of 'keeping company with God.'

Some art needs to be hung on the wall and stared at inquisitively, while other pieces require a more active approach.

Self-care is a requirement.

If I want to calm down, I'll buy some fabric, get a pattern, shut myself in a room and stay there for days, really happy. And at the end of it, you get a bedspread or some curtains or something to wear - it's lovely.

I find I have to give myself a day when I just shut myself off and do nothing but read.

Sometimes on sets, I shut down, try to focus.

There isn't much I have to say, that I wouldn't rather just shut up and do.

I have trouble falling asleep. I have trouble shutting my mind off.

Whether you call it meditation, self-reflection or just shutting everything out, I am quite good at that.

Often, before returning home, I would take a long and roundabout way and pass by the peaceful ramparts from where I had glimpses of other provinces, and a sight of the distant country.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

One of the greatest attacks of the enemy is to make you busy, to make you hurried, to make you noisy, to make you distracted, to fill the people of God and the Church of God with so much noise and activity that there is no room for prayer. There is no room for being alone with God. There is no room for silence. There is no room for meditation.