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Powerful Christian Meditation Quotes

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“The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost thinking about it.”1 – Blaise Pascal

“I’m convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that’s not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of time.” – Charles Stanley

“In place of our exhaustion and spiritual fatigue, God will give us rest. All He asks is that we come to Him…that we spend a while thinking about Him, meditating on Him, talking to Him, listening in silence, occupying ourselves with Him – totally and thoroughly lost in the hiding place of His presence.” – Chuck Swindoll

“When we find a man meditating on the words of God, my friends, that man is full of boldness and is successful.” – Dwight L. Moody

“Some women will spend thirty minutes to an hour preparing for church externally (putting on special clothes and makeup, etc.). What would happen if we all spent the same amount of time preparing internally for church – with prayer and meditation?” – Leonard Ravenhill

“The amount of time we spend with Jesus – meditating on His Word and His majesty, seeking His face – establishes our fruitfulness in the kingdom.” – Charles Stanley

“As you read, pause frequently to meditate on the meaning of what you are reading. Absorb the Word into your system by dwelling on it, pondering it, going over it again and again in your mind, considering it from many different angles, until it becomes part of you.” – Nancy Leigh DeMoss

“The more you read the Bible; and the more you meditate on it, the more you will be astonished with it.” – Charles Spurgeon

“We shall not benefit from reading the Old Testament unless we look for and meditate on the glory of Christ in its pages.” – John Owen

“An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.” – Charles Stanley

“When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.” – David Brainerd

“It is not hasty reading, but seriously meditating upon holy and heavenly truths that makes them prove sweet and profitable to the soul. It is not the bee’s touching on the flowers that gathers the honey, but her abiding for a time upon them, and drawing out the sweet. It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most on divine truth, that will prove the choicest, wisest, strongest Christian.” – Joseph Hall

“The sweet spices of divine works must be beaten to powder by meditation, and then laid up in the cabinet of our memories.” – Abraham Wright

“The reason we come away so cold from reading the word is, because we do not warm ourselves at the fire of meditation.” -Thomas Watson

“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.” – David Brainerd

“It is not mere reading, but meditation – ‘meditation all the day,’ as the Psalmist says — which extracts the sweetness and the power out of Scripture.” – James Stalker

“We can have the mind of Christ when we meditate on the Word of God.” – Crystal McDowell

“Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to God’s listening ears.” – R. A. Torrey

“When we find our souls at all declining, it is best to raise them up presently by some awakening meditations, such as of the presence of God, of the strict reckoning we are to make, of the infinite love of God in Christ and the fruits of it, of the Excellency of a Christian’s calling, of the short and uncertain time of this life, of how little good all those things that steal away our hearts will do us before long, and of how it shall be forever with us hereafter, as we spend this short time well or ill. The more we make way for such considerations to sink into our hearts, the more we shall rise nearer to that state of soul which we shall enjoy in heaven.” – Richard Sibbes


1 All of the following quotes are from the websites below:

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