Quotes about Absorption

Without absorption of the water of God's Word, there's no quenching our spiritual thirst. Meditation is the means of absorption.

Drink deeply from good books.

The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.

Unless you read it quickly you will fail to see the unity of the story. Unless you read intensely you will fail to see the details.

My spiritual goal is to one day walk into God and disappear.

The absence of God in most spheres of life is perceived to be normal, and even Christians feel it as normal - which is why absorbing the culture all around us and its priorities is so dangerous.

The essence of forgiveness is absorbing pain instead of giving it.

I hear people all the time say, well I read through the Bible last year. Well, so what? I'm all for reading through the Bible. But how much of that got on the inside, or did they just cover three more chapters today? I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it.

Concentration is another name for what we have called activity in reading. The good reader reads actively, with concentration.

When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

We want something else which can hardly be put into words—to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it.

Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn." (Winston Churchill)