1467 examples of meditation in sentences

Later on he would spend four or five hours daily in Bible reading, meditation and prayer, so that whereas he had written a few months earlier: "Oh! dear mother, I wish I felt more what I write!"

Presently he took off his glasses and, leaning farther back against the cushions, closed his eyes in pleasant meditation.

Few minds will be long confined to severe and laborious meditation; and when a successful attack on knowledge has been made, the student recreates himself with the contemplation of his conquest, and forbears another incursion, till the new-acquired truth has become familiar, and his curiosity calls upon him for fresh gratifications.

Almamoulin, who loved his father, was touched a while with honest sorrow, and sat two hours in profound meditation, without perusing the paper which he held in his hand.

And by way of example he sat heavily on my periscope and stayed gazing at the ground like a fakir lost in meditation.

Her daughter is Meditation.

This is the study and place of meditation of the exile; here also he comes to take his meals, in sight of the sea.

I. May that triumphant Lord protect us, who as he stands in mysterious meditation, bathed in twilight, motionless, and ashy pale, with the crystal moon in his yellow hair, appears to the host of worshippers on his left, a woman, and to those on his right, a man.

dost thou not remember how I used to meet thee every day in the little hut, when my father was away in the wood engaged in meditation?

And he was standing still, half buried in the hills of ants, themselves covered over by his long white hair, immersed in meditation.

That possibility was cause for prayerful and lonely consideration, for meditation among the hills, whence he might draw strength.

Powers which, in meditation, worked at the bidding of pensive or melancholy sentiments, seemed to be braced by action into unwonted healthiness and hilarity; and had he survived the experience of the present war, there can be little doubt that his intellect and imagination would, by contact with events, have been developed to their full capacity, and found expression in literary works of remarkable power.

The figure of Dante himself, seated above, is grand and majestic; his head is inclined as if in meditation, and his features bear the expression of sublime thought.

But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on In maiden meditation, fancy free an allusion to Leicester's unsuccessful suit for Elizabeth's hand.

Do not devote all your time to action, but reserve a certain portion of it for meditation upon eternity.

Though he sat long after silence had settled down, Bedient did not know (so softly and sweetly did the old saint depart) that the Sannyasin was tranced in death instead of meditation.

He felt much more than he said, and often regarded the young man, as one rapt in meditation....

He belongs to the High Church school and has printed, besides his sermons, many works of educational character, such as the "Treasury of Meditation," "Manual of Devotion for Lent," and "Confirmation and Holy Communion.

in it is my meditation all the day:" they eat it as food for their souls, and find it sweeter than honey.

When they remembered their enthusiastic declaration of independence only one year before, the warlike demonstrations which followed it, the prophecies of Young that the Lord would smite the army as he smote the hosts of Sennacherib, the fever of hate and apprehension into which they had been worked, and contrasted that period of excitement with their present condition, they must, indeed, have found abundant material for meditation.

NOLTE, ROY E. A Christmas meditation.

EVANS-WENTZ, W. Y. Buddhist meditation in the Southern school.

At that, being well pleased with my calling him comrade, he lighted me cordially to my chamber, and there left me to the sleepless meditation of the night.

He hoped that Albert would profit by this terrible experience, and that he would so improve the time of his confinement with meditation, that what would remain to him of life when he should come out of the walls of his prison might be spent as an honorable and law-abiding citizen.

At this period of his life, meditation and study resulted in a firm religious faith, which never wavered afterward.

1467 examples of  meditation  in sentences