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Believe Quotes by Thomas Merton
- Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and…
- My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain…
- It is easy enough to tell the poor to accept their poverty as Gods will when you yourself have warm clothes and plenty of food…
- I believe we are going to have to prepare ourselves for the difficult and patient task of outgrowing rigid and intransigent nationalism, and work slowly…
- I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.
- And that is why the man who wants to see clearly, before he will believe, never starts on the journey.
- The man who lives in division is living in death. He cannot find himself because he is lost; he has ceased to be a reality.…
- 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 peculiar grace of a Shaker chair is due to the fact that it was made by someone capable of believing that an angel might…
- Modern man believes he is fruitful and productive when his ego is aggressively affirmed, when he is visibly active, and when his action produces obvious…
- Who is willing to be satisfied with a job that expresses all his limitations? He will accept such work only as a 'means of livelihood'…
- The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them.
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- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a… — Julian Assange
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger. — Richard Bach
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing… — Neil Armstrong
- Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind… — Mary Kay Ash
- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov