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Body Quotes by Thomas Merton
- As long as we are on earth, the love that unites us will bring us suffering by our very contact with one another, because this…
- The Bible is not primarily a written or printed text to be scrutinized in private, in a scholar's study or a contemplative cell. It is…
- I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own…
- Many poets are not poets for the same reason that many religious men are not saints: they never succeed in being themselves. They never get…
- If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.
- We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of…
- Faith is the door to the full inner life of the Church, a life which includes not only access to an authoritative teaching but above…
- We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of…
More Body Quotes
- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on… — Aristotle
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
- I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions… — Saint Augustine