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Cannot 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…
- Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep inexpressible certitude of…
- If a writer is so cautious that he never writes anything that cannot be criticized, he will never be able to write anything that can…
- 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…
- Contemplation is not and cannot be a function of this external self. There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self that awakens only…
- For now, oh my God, it is to You alone that I can talk, because nobody else will understand. I cannot bring any other man…
- I have learned that one cannot truly know hope unless he has found out how like despair hope is.
- I have the immense joy of being man, a member of a race in which God Himself became incarnate. As if the sorrows and stupidities…
- What is 'grace'? It is God's own life, shared by us. God's life is love. Deus caritas est. By grace we are able to share…
- The real hope is not in something we think we can do, but in God, who is making something good out of it in some…
- As long as I am content to know that He is infinitely greater than I, and that I cannot know Him unless He shows himself…
- We cannot master everything, taste everything, understand everything, drain every experience to its last dregs. But if we have the courage to let almost everything…
- 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,…
- 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.…
- You cannot be a man of faith unless you know how to doubt.
- Ultimately faith is the only key to the universe. The final meaning of human existence, and the answers to the questions on which all our…
- Hurry ruins saints as well as artists. They want quick success, and they are in such a hurry to get it that they cannot take…
- The reality that is present to us and in us: call it being...Silence. And the simple fact that by being attentive, by learning to listen…
- O God, teach me to be satisfied with my own helplessness in the spiritual life. Teach me to be content with Your grace that comes…
- Now anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity. It is the fruit of unanswered questions. But questions cannot go unanswered unless they first be asked.
More Cannot Quotes
- Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. — Joe Biden
- There is Nothing in this world. Which cannot be achieved. If you have the guts to do everything which it will take. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater. — Pam Brown
- It is not possible to provide evidence of life after death to the five senses anymore than it is possible to provide… — Gary Zukav
- Out of hate, if you try to love that love will just be a hidden hate; it cannot be anything else-you are… — Rajneesh
- There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development… — Lord Acton
- I cannot help but notice that there is no problem between us that cannot be solved by your departure. — Mark Twain