Charles Spurgeon Quotes

I meditate on God's life and I read the scriptures. I read something about Him, go through it and spend a lot of time by myself.

We are not social workers. We are contemplatives in the heart of the world.

He had been (Thinking? Praying?) It was all the same thing.

Sannyas is only a declaration. The work is meditation. In one single word, my religion is complete, and that is meditation.

Let us pray, and as we pray, let us make room for Jesus in our hearts.

In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart.

Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .

Meditate on the Word in the Word.

I believe that many who find that "nothing happens" when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand.

At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.

Let us read our Bibles reverently and diligently, with an honest determination to believe and practice all we find in them.

I was never out of my Bible.

Whole days and weeks have I spent prostrate on the ground in silent or vocal prayer.

I have found, after a good deal of consideration, that the best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him here.

To be alone and to be drunk with your own aloneness is what meditation is all about. Be in the world, but don't be of it.

Prayer is to vibrate, do the devotion, whatever it is, to whoever you believe in, Christ or Buddha or Krishna or any of them. You get the response depending on how much you need it.

Everything starts with prayer. Love to pray-feel the need to pray often during the day and take the trouble to pray. If you want to pray better, you must pray more. The more you pray, the easier it becomes. Perfect prayer does not consist of many words but in the fervor of the desire which raises the heart to Jesus.

The more we can give in our silent prayer, the more we can give in our active life.

Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be content with a superficial knowledge.

Meditate upon the Om that is in the heart.

My secret is simple -- I pray.

To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.

Speaking uses us up, speeds us up. Without prayer, that act of confession for merely existing, one might live forever and not know it.

Meditation is the activity of calling to mind, and thinking over, and dwelling on, and applying to oneself, the various things that one knows about the works and ways and purposes and promises of God.

Listen in silence because if your heart is full of other things you cannot hear the voice of God