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Capacity Quotes by Thomas Merton
- True encounter with Christ liberates something within us, a power we did not know we had, a capacity to grow and change.
- The mission of Christian humility in social life is not merely to edify, but to keep minds open to many alternatives. The rigidity of a…
- Fear narrows the little entrance of our heart. It shrinks up our capacity to love. It freezes up our power to give ourselves.
- 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…
- The gift of love is the gift of the power and capacity to love, and therefore, to give love with full effect is also to…
- Cupidity...takes created things for ends in themselves, which they are not. The will that seeks rest in creatures for their own sake stops on the…
- The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to be carried away…
- We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.
- Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of…
More Capacity Quotes
- God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart." "God gave you life and bestowed upon you… — Rumi
- Let us never lose sight of the fact that education is a preparation for life - and that preparing for life is… — Ezra Taft Benson
- In any activity, we have to know what to expect, how to reach our objectives and what capacity we possess for the… — Paulo Coelho
- In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds. — David Blaine
- The biggest challenge of public policy is to know when and how the world has changed. We are no longer an empty… — Richard Lamm
- All nations are degrading and consuming their environment to a point beyond capacity. In the past 15 years in the U.S. we… — Gaylord Nelson
- in the spring he will attend your botanical course. his natural turn is very strongly to the objects of your two courses… — Thomas Jefferson
- Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other. — John Dewey