Quotes About Meditation

Lo que más impide la consolación celestial, es que muy tarde vuelves a la oración. Porque antes de orar con atención, buscas muchas consolaciones, y te recreas en lo exterior. De aquí viene que todo te aprovecha poco, hasta que conozcas que yo soy el que libro para los que esperan en Mí; y fuera de Mí no hay auxilio eficaz, consejo provechoso, ni remedio durable.

If, with a single glance, you could see everything in the world spread out before your eyes, how fruitless a sight that would be! Raise your eyes to God on high and pray for your sins and deficiencies.

The spiritually-minded man putteth care of himself before all cares; and he who diligently attendeth to himself easily keepeth silence concerning others. Thou wilt never be spiritually minded and godly unless thou art silent concerning other men's matters and take full heed to thyself. If thou think wholly upon thyself and upon God, what thou seest out of doors shall move thee little. Where art thou when thou art not present to thyself?

To walk inwardly with God, and not to be held by any outer affections, is the state of a spiritual man.

certain man being in anxiety of mind, continually tossed about between hope and fear, and being on a certain day overwhelmed with grief, cast himself down in prayer before the altar in a church, and meditated within himself, saying, "Oh! if I but knew that I should still persevere," and presently heard within him a voice from God, "And if thou didst know it, what wouldst thou do? Do now what thou wouldst do then, and thou shalt be very secure.

For a spiritual person, it is commendable to rarely venture out, avoid being seen, and have no desire to see others.

All Scripture ought to be read in the spirit in which it was written.

A barrage of words does not make the soul happy, but a good life gladdens the mind and a pure conscience generates a bountiful confidence in God.

The best thinking has been done in solitude.

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

If, then, the final happiness of man does not consist in those exterior advantages which are called goods of fortune, nor in goods of the body, nor in goods of the soul in its sentient part, nor in the virtues of practical intellect, called art and prudence, it remains that the final happiness of man consists in the contemplation of truth.

Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!

We visit...a neighboring grave-yard. I am by this time in a condition of mind to become a willing inmate of the place.

I avoid literature whenever possible, because whenever possible I avoid myself...

Concentration, lovingkindness, and peace. That is all." Imagine being a person

The more any man is in the contemplation of truth, the more fairer and firmer impression is made upon his heart by truth.

Surely it is more honourable to do great things, than to speak or read great things!...When a Christian has one eye upon his book, the other should be looking up to heaven for a blessing upon what he reads.

I]t is not hasty reading--but serious meditating upon holy and heavenly truths, that make them prove sweet and profitable to the soul. It is not the bee's touching of the flower, which gathers honey--but her abiding for a time upon the flower, which draws out the sweet. It is not he who reads most--but he who meditates most, who will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian.

It is not the bee's touching of the flower that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon the flower that draws out the sweet. It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most, that will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian.

The body is the temple of the heart. How shall we reach the sacred image unless we enter the gates?

Lord, inspire us to read your Scriptures and meditate upon them day and night. We beg you to give us real understanding of what we need, that we in turn may put its precepts into practice. Yet we know that understanding and good intentions are worthless, unless rooted in your graceful love. So we ask that the words of Scripture may also be not just signs on a page, but channels of grace into our hearts. Origen FURTHER

Work alone is noble.

Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.