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Christian Quotes by Thomas Merton
- It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.
- 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…
- Even the darkest moments of the liturgy are filled with joy, and Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the lenten fast, is a day of happiness,…
- The only influence that can really upset the injustice and iniquity of men is the power that breathes in the Christian tradition, renewing our participation…
- To those who have no personal experience of this revolutionary aspect of Christian truth, but who see only the outer crust of dead, human conservatism…
- Each individual Christian and each new age of the Church has to make this rediscovery, this return to the source of Christian life.
- To be risen with Christ means not only that one has a choice and that one may live by a higher law - the law…
- Place no hope in the feeling of assurance, in spiritual comfort. You may well have to get along without this. Place no hope in the…
- Humility is a virtue, not a neurosis.
- The married man and the mother of a Christian family, if they are faithful to their obligations, will fulfill a mission that is as great…
- The Christian life, and especially the contemplative life, is a continual discovery of Christ in new and unexpected places.
- Merely to resist evil with evil by hating those who hate us and seeking to destroy them, is actually no resistance at all. It is…
- 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…
- Our knowledge of God is perfected by gratiitude: we are thankful and rejoice in the experience of the truth that He is love...
- To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything He has given us...and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw…
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- God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. — Saint Augustine
- No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more. — Saint Augustine
- The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion… — Saint Augustine
- The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or… — Teresa of Avila
- I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of… — Michele Bachmann
- In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. — Francis Bacon
- I'm a Jewish born-again Christian. — Stephen Baldwin
- The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian… — Hans Urs von Balthasar