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Before Quotes by Thomas Merton
- Before we can become who we really are, we must become conscious of the fact that the person who we think we are, here and…
- Self-conquest is really self-surrender. Yet before we can surrender ourselves we must become ourselves. For no one can give up what he does not possess.
- Once you have grace," I said to him, "you are free. Without it, you cannot help doing the things you know you should not do,…
- And that is why the man who wants to see clearly, before he will believe, never starts on the journey.
- For language to have meaning, there must be intervals of silence somewhere, to divide word from word and utterance from utterance. He who retires into…
- We must be true inside, true to ourselves, before we can know a truth that is outside us. But we make ourselves true inside by…
- 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…
- If our life is poured out in useless words, we will never hear anything, never become anything, and in the end, because we have said…
- I was not sure where I was going, and I could not see what I would do when I got [there]. But you saw further…
More Before Quotes
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
- I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was… — Bella Abzug
- If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it? — Arthur Ashe
- Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot… — Rowan Atkinson
- Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. — David Attenborough
- Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood