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Act Quotes by Thomas Merton
- Some of us need to discover that we will not begin to live more fully until we have the courage to do and see and…
- A gentle sense of humor will be alert to detect anything that savors of a pious 'act' on the part of the penitent.
- Actions are the doors and windows of being. Unless we act, we have no way of knowing what we are.
- Grace is not a strange, magic substance which is subtly filtered into our souls to act as a kind of spiritual penicillin. Grace is unity,…
- Teach me to take all grace / And spring it into blades of act, / Grow spears and sheaves of charity, / While each new…
- Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose,…
- This act of total surrender is not merely a fantastic intellectual and mystical gamble; it is something much more serious. It is an act of…
More Act Quotes
- Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
- Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
- Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
- We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material… — Julian Assange
- Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden