MEDITATION

Related Subjects: Contemplation, Reflection, Reverie, Solitude, Thought

1. Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight.—Bible, Psalms 19:14
   

2. Meditation may think down hours to moments. The heart may give most useful lessons to the head, and learning wiser grow without his books.—COWPER
   

3. Meditation is the soul's perspective glass, whereby, in her long removes, she discerneth God, as if he were nearer at hand.—OWEN FELTHAM
   

4. It is easier to walk six miles to hear a sermon, than to spend one quarter of an hour in meditating on it when I come home.—PHILIP HENRY
   

5. He that can read and meditate, will not find his evenings long, or life tedious.—Proverb
   

6. Meditation is the life of the soul; action is the soul of meditation; honor is the reward of action: so meditate, that thou mayst do; so do, that thou mayst purchase honor; for which purchase, give God the glory.—FRANCIS QUARLES
   

7. Reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation that must form our judgment.—ISAAC WATTS

8. 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours and ask them what report they bore to heaven, and how they might have borne more welcome news.—EDWARD YOUNG