from Life Together, by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Word of Scripture should never stop sounding in your ears and working in you all day long, just like the words of someone you love. And just as you do not analyze the words of someone you love, but accept them as they are said to you, accept the Word of Scripture and ponder it in your heart, as Mary did.  That is all… Do not ask "How shall I pass this on?" but "What does it say to me?’" Then ponder this word long in your heart until it has gone right into you and taken possession of you.

from Homily XXVII On Numbers, by Origen (cited in Depression, A Stubborn Darkness, by Ed Welch)

"My soul has long been on pilgrimage" (Ps. 119:54). Understand, then, if you can, what the pilgrimages of the soul are, especially when it laments with groaning and grief that it has been on pilgrimage so long. We understand these pilgrimages only dully and darkly so long as the pilgrimage still lasts. But when the soul has returned to its rest, that is, to the homeland of paradise, it will be taught more truly and will understand more truly the meaning of what the pilgrimage was.

on Psalm 23, by David Roper

God is articulate. He speaks to us through is Word. Meditate on His words until His thoughts begin to take shape in your mind ...
   When we read His Word we are reading His mind -- what He knows, what He feels, what He wants, what He enjoys, what He desires, what He loves, what He hates.