Matthew Henry Quotes

Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse.

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

Spend more time in daily reflection, contemplation and meditation. Had I done that at 20, things would have been very different in my life. But things really were as they needed to be, because I had to learn ... how important it was.

Meditation is like the cloak of the good thief. You find a corner or somewhere where you can actually entertain your own self and your own soul, and understand what your work [is] here.

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.

Meditation is the straight flight of the mind to the Kingdom of Heaven present in the heart of everyone.

Meditation is my soul's soundless conversation with my inner pilot.

Meditate on the Word in the Word.

Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence.

In silence, we have an opportunity to reflect, listen, and gain new insights about ourselves. In silence, we can think, feel, and most important of all, breathe. When you seek guidance, understanding, clarity, or peace of mind, the first step is to master the art of silence and to rethink the value of solitude.

To believe a thing is to see the cool crystal water sparkling in the cup. But to meditate on it is to drink of it. Reading gathers the clusters; contemplation squeezes forth their generous juice.

What we really have to do is take a day and sit down and think. The world is not going to end or fall apart. Jobs won't be lost. Kids will not run crazy in one day. Lovers won't stop speaking to you. Husbands and wives are not going to disappear. Just take that one day and think. Don't read. Don't write. No television, no radio, no distractions. Sit down and think. . . . Go sit in a church, or in the park, or take a long walk and think. Call it a healing day.

Stillness is our most intense mode of action. It is in our moments of deep quiet that is born every idea, emotion, and drive which we eventually honor with the name of action. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great.

He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.

I meditate. I've been a meditator since, I think I was doing it unofficially before all my life and then began to formalize it somewhere around 14.

I aspire only to silence.

To meditate is to familiarise our mind constantly and thoroughly with a virtuous object.

I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

You are in the back of your head somewhere and you want to close your eyes and go away.

My goal is to get quieter as I get older.

If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.