Meditation and Contemplation in Christianity

Famous quotes containing the words meditation and, meditation and/or christianity:

    Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be
    acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.
    Bible: Hebrew Psalm XIX (l. XIX, 14)

    The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility with which its scheme accommodates itself to the capacity of every human intellect, in the consolation which it bears to the house of mourning, in the light with which it brightens the great mystery of the grave.
    Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)