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Best Cannot Quotes by Thomas Merton
- We cannot arrive at the perfect possession of God in this life, and that is why we are travelling and in darkness. But we already…
- The question of love is one that cannot be evaded. Whether or not you claim to be interested in it from the moment you are…
- The only thing to seek in contemplative prayer is God; and we seek Him successfully when we realize that we cannot find Him unless He…
- True happiness is not found in any other reward than that of being united with God. If I seek some other reward besides God Himself,…
- Our Christian destiny is, in fact, a great one: but we cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great. For our own…
- If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts.
- Thinking about monastic ideals is not the same as living up to them, but at any rate such thinking has an important place in a…
- What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?
More Cannot Quotes
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But… — Gerard Arpey
- Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. — Wystan Hugh Auden