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Meditation
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“It is not enough to have a few transient thoughts of God by the by, but there must be a fixing of our minds on God, till our hearts are warmed in love to him, and we can say, like those in Like 24:32, 'Did not our heart burn within us?”
“Be much in holy contemplation of Christ. Spend time in secret retirement, and there think and think again, of the superlative excellencies and perfections which are in Christ.”
“The life of a Christian is wondrously ruled in this world, by the consideration and meditation of the life of another world.”
“As it is the sister of reading, so it is the mother of prayer.”
“Solitude is a release to the soul that was imprisoned in company.”
“Solemn meditation is a serious applying the mind to some sacred subject, till the affections be warmed and quickened, and the resolution heightened and strengthened thereby, against what is evil, and for what is good.”
“I wish that souls would read the Scriptures as profitable Scriptures with the intention to profit.”
“It is not he who reads most, but he who meditates most, who will prove to be the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian.”
“Remember that it is not hasty reading, but serious meditation on holy and heavenly truths, which makes them prove sweet and profitable to the soul.”
“Why are not our hearts continually set on heaven? Why dwell we not there in constant contemplation? Bend thy soul to study eternity, busy thyself about the life to come.”
“If thy meditation tends to fill thy note-book with notions, and good sayings, concerning God, and not thy heart with longing after him, and delight in him, for aught I know thy book is as much a Christian as thou.”
“The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.”
“Without meditation the truths which we know will never affect our hearts.”
“The reason we come away so cold from reading the word is, because we do not warm ourselves at the fire of meditation.”
“Meditation without reading is wrong and bound to err; reading without meditation is barren and fruitless.”
“Leave not off reading the Bible till you find your hearts warmed.”
“A Christian without meditation is like a soldier without weapons, or a workman without tools.”
“Meditation is the saints' looking glass, by which they see things invisible. Meditation is the golden ladder by which they ascend to paradise.”
“God's thoughts of you are many, let not yours be few in return.”
“You have not read till you understand the spirit of the matter.”
“We must meditate, brothers. These grapes will yield no wine till we tread upon them.”
“One thought fixed upon the mind will be better than fifty thoughts flittering across the ear.”
“He who often thinks of God will have a larger mind than the man who simply plods around this narrow globe.”
“To have sweet sleep we must have sweet lives, sweet tempers, sweet meditations, and sweet love.”
“The most important daily habit we can possess is to remind ourselves of the gospel.”
“No illustrations are half so telling as those which are taken from familiar objects.”
“Solemn silence makes noble worship.”
“Meditation is the soul of religion.”
“There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech.”
“We should be better Christians if we were more alone, waiting upon God.”