Kate’s Reviews > God’s Battle Plan for the Mind: The Puritan Practice of Biblical Meditation > Status Update

“Meditating on sin convinces sinners that they’re deliverance is not in themselves. It is in the free, cleansing Grace of Christ.”

“Look at the root and rise of a sinful practice, whence it springs, inwardly; otherwise, we shall never come to the core of a corruption, or see where the loathsomeness of a lust lies.”

“Believers often fall into sin because they maximize its benefits and lessen its consequences.”

“An object as doth correspondent and… fit to the present temper of thy soul; would practically and concretely help gain victory in Christian warfare.… matters practical are there to be ground for bread to thy soul; they that hunt after fancies do but misemploy their thoughts.”

“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… When God has cast seed into the heart, let not the fowls peck it away.… Immediately begin meditation on it in your hearts… And you will find your memories surprisingly strengthened.… the Word is particularly applied, laid home.”

“Oh my soul, it is thus with me or not?”

“A good heart will find or make its way over mountains of difficulties and business common to have communion with Jesus Christ.”

“Labor to be constant…”

“…so long, ordinarily, till thou dost find some sensible benefit conveyed to thy soul… As it is in the kindling of a fire in wet wood,… When you blow at first, there is a little smoke arises, by holding on you raise sparks, but he that goes forward at last brings it to a flame. So it is in the duty of meditation.”

“…affection without understanding is blind and inordinate.”

“…here is not a spark of fire upon our own hearth that is able to kindle this spiritual delight. It is the Holy Ghost that breathes such a heavenly heat into our affections.”

“It’s one thing in our diet to take a snatch and away, [and] another thing to make a meal, and sit at it on purpose until we have seen all set before us, and we have taken our fill of all. So we must not cast a… glimpse at the truth,… But we must make a meal of musing.”