What They Said

"The end of study is information, and the end of meditation is practice, or a work upon the affections."

"To hear and not to meditate is unfruitful. We may hear and hear, but it is like putting a thing into a bag with holes."

"What we take in the word we digest by meditation and let out by prayer."

"The reason we come away so cold from reading the Word, is because we do not warm ourselves at the fire of meditation."

"It often astonishes me that I did not see the importance of meditation upon Scripture earlier in my Christian life. As the outward man is not fit for work for any length of time unless he eats, so it is with the inner man. What is the food for the inner man? Not prayer, but the Word of God-not the simple reading of the Word of God, so that it only passes through our minds, just as water runs through a pipe. No, we must consider what we read, ponder over it, and apply it to our hearts."

"Meditation is the best beginning of prayer, and prayer is the best conclusion of meditation."

"Without meditation grace never thrives, prayer is languid, praise dull, and religious duties unprofitable."

“Study is like a winter sun, that shineth, but warmeth not; but meditation is like blowing up the fire, where we do not mind the blaze but the heat."

“The end of study is information, and the end of meditation is practice, or a work upon the affections.”

"Our design in meditation must be rather to cleanse our hearts, than to clear our heads."

"If I have observed anything by experience, it is this: a man may take the measure of his growth and decay in grace according to his thoughts and meditations upon the person of Christ, and the glory of Christ's Kingdom, and of His love."