They laboured carefully in copying books, being instant continually in sacred study and devout meditation.

It was Mrs. Morran's custom of a Sunday to spend the morning in devout meditation.

All that devout meditation can do to understand the sanctity of Blessed Mary has been done.

We may draw the same profit from the diligent and devout meditation of the Mysteries of the Rosary.

It was a temple for devout meditation and adoration such as no cathedral reared by man's hand ever presented.

Wonder at the ways of God had been hers for so many months now-wonder ,withdevout meditation upon their meaning.

So must a temple be for the various acts of worship, preaching, instruction and devout meditation to be possible in it.

He wrestled much in prayer and devout meditation whether as anointed prince himself he were justified in meddling with the anointment of other princes.

I left him and Sir Allan to breakfast in our barn, and stole back again to the cathedral, to indulge in solitude and devout meditation.

Not being allowed books, he spent his time in prayer and devout meditation, and waited without impatience or anxiety for the further course of events.

He tried to keep his mind fixed upon the devout meditations proper to the eve of Good Friday.

The original of this delightful hymn is one of the devout meditations of Bernard of Clairvaux, a Cistercian monk (1091-1153).