Quotes About Meditation

But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy room, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father who is in secret; and thy Father who seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.

Without the incense of heartfelt prayer, even the greatest of cathedrals is dead.

Follow your own way of speaking to our Lord sincerely, lovingly, confidently, and simply, as your heart dictates.

Do not pray by heart, but with the heart.

In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part, without the sweet concurrence of the heart.

He offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea.

Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me.

Be not hot in prayer and cold in praise.

Prayer is something deeper than words. It is present in the soul before it has been formulated in words. And it abides in the soul after the last words of prayer have passed over our lips.

Productive prayer requires earnestness, not eloquence.

Prayer is a fine, delicate instrument. To use it right is a great art, a holy art. There is perhaps no greater art than the art of prayer. Yet the least gifted, the uneducated and the poor can cultivate the holy art of prayer.

God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.

Short prayers pierceth Heaven.

When we make self the end of prayer, it is not worship but self-seeking.

Granting that we are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense; for they, as it were, see that He is looking upon them, while others may go for days on end without even once recollecting that God sees them.

You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it for a time and dismissing it from your mind altogether.

The feast of reason and the flow of soul.

Day of the Lord, as all our days should be!

Deep-versed in books And shallow in himself.

It was enough just to sit there without words.

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a purpose.

The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us, like the Kingdom of Heaven, rather than without.

Look well into thyself; there is a source which will always spring up if thou wilt always search there.

Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, our own meditation must form our judgement.