“To be spriritually minded is…to have our minds really exercised with delight about heavenly things…especially Christ himself as at the right hand of God.”

“Spiritual-mindedness is developed, exercised and reinforced by meditation. By…meditation, I intend the thought of some subject spiritual and divine, with the fixing, forcing, and ordering of our thoughts about it, with a design to affect our own hearts and souls with the matter of it…In meditation our principal aim is the affecting of our own hearts and minds with love, delight, and humiliation.”

- John Owen, Works, ed. W. Goold (London: Banner of Truth, 1965), 7:348, 384.
- Quoted in J.I. Packer, Prayer