Distractions and Meditation or Prayer
August 26.
Be silent, O all flesh, before the Lord.
ZECHARIAH 2, verse 13.
Be earth, with all her scenes, withdrawn;
Let noise and vanity be gone:
In secret silence of the mind,
My heaven, and there my God, I find.
ISAAC WATTS.
It is only with the pious affection of the will that we can be spiritually
attentive to God. As long as the noisy restlessness of the thoughts goes
on, the gentle and holy desires of the new nature are overpowered and
inactive.
J. P. GREAVES.
There is hardly ever a complete silence in our soul. God is whispering to
us well nigh incessantly. Whenever the sounds of the world die out in the
soul, or sink low, then we hear these whisperings of God. He is always
whispering to us, only we do not always hear, because of the noise, hurry,
and distraction which life causes as it rushes on.
F. W. FABER.
The prayer of faith is a sincere, sweet, and quiet view of divine, eternal
truth. The soul rests quiet, perceiving and loving God; sweetly rejecting
all the imaginations that present themselves, calming the mind in the
Divine presence, and fixing it only on God.
MICHAEL DE MOLINOS.
Roland's Comments
The world today is full of more noise and distractions than ever before. The secret to finding the meditative life, which is also a life of prayer, is learn how to not be distracted by the distractions. The person must learn the art of letting noise, music, television and so on go in one ear and out the other. A person should be able to be in a room with a noisy television at the other end of the room and not be bothered in the slightest.
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Be silent, O all flesh, before the Lord.
ZECHARIAH 2, verse 13.
Be earth, with all her scenes, withdrawn;
Let noise and vanity be gone:
In secret silence of the mind,
My heaven, and there my God, I find.
ISAAC WATTS.
It is only with the pious affection of the will that we can be spiritually
attentive to God. As long as the noisy restlessness of the thoughts goes
on, the gentle and holy desires of the new nature are overpowered and
inactive.
J. P. GREAVES.
There is hardly ever a complete silence in our soul. God is whispering to
us well nigh incessantly. Whenever the sounds of the world die out in the
soul, or sink low, then we hear these whisperings of God. He is always
whispering to us, only we do not always hear, because of the noise, hurry,
and distraction which life causes as it rushes on.
F. W. FABER.
The prayer of faith is a sincere, sweet, and quiet view of divine, eternal
truth. The soul rests quiet, perceiving and loving God; sweetly rejecting
all the imaginations that present themselves, calming the mind in the
Divine presence, and fixing it only on God.
MICHAEL DE MOLINOS.
Roland's Comments
The world today is full of more noise and distractions than ever before. The secret to finding the meditative life, which is also a life of prayer, is learn how to not be distracted by the distractions. The person must learn the art of letting noise, music, television and so on go in one ear and out the other. A person should be able to be in a room with a noisy television at the other end of the room and not be bothered in the slightest.
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