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Creatures Quotes by Thomas Merton
- The devil is no fool. He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought to feel about hell. He can make them fear…
- His justice is the love that gives to each one of His creatures the gifts that His mercy has previously decreed. And His mercy is…
- 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…
- It is a kind of pride to insist that none of our prayers should ever be petitions for our own needs: for this is only…
More Creatures Quotes
- I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature. — J. J. Abrams
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and… — Mary Astell
- Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the… — David Attenborough
- I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see… — David Attenborough
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has… — Marcus Aurelius
- God's first creature, which was light. — Francis Bacon