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Becomes Quotes by Thomas Merton
- When society is made up of men who know no interior solitude it can no longer be held together by love: and consequently it is…
- To be alone by being part of the universe-fitting in completely to an environment of woods and silence and peace. Everything you do becomes a…
- When I am liberated by silence, when I am no longer involved in the measurement of life, but in the living of it, I can…
- We too often forget that faith is a matter of questioning and struggle before it becomes one of certitude and peace. You have to doubt…
- The monk in hiding himself from the world becomes not less than himself, not less of a person, but more of a person, more truly…
- The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty. Ghandi,…
- The soul of man, left to its own natural level, is a potentially lucid crystal left in darkness. It is perfect in its own nature,…
- Prayer and love are learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and the heart has turned to stone.
- Every man becomes the image of the God he adores. He whose worship is directed to a dead thing becomes dead. He who loves corruption…
More Becomes Quotes
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a… — Rowan Atkinson
- Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. — Saint Augustine
- The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. — Marcus Aurelius
- Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life. — Paul Auster
- When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery… — Teresa of Avila
- I came to the conclusion months ago, and I said it to members of Congress, that the only way people are going… — David Axelrod
- A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too… — Sai Baba
- At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged. — Charles Babbage
- In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase… — Charles Babbage
- There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge,… — Charles Babbage
- In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats… — Michelle Bachelet