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Darkness Quotes by Thomas Merton
- 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…
- Our thought should not merely be an answer to what someone else has just said. Or what someone else might have said. Our interior world…
- 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…
- We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that…
- For the birds there is not a time that they tell, but the point vierge between darkness and light, between being and nonbeing. You can…
- For the ones who are called saints by human opinion on earth may very well be devils, and their light may very well be darkness
- The soul of man, left to its own natural level, is a potentially lucid crystal left in darkness. It is perfect in its own nature,…
- 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…
- We thank Him less by words than by the serene happiness of silent acceptance. It is our emptiness in the presence of His reality, our…
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- In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. — Francis Bacon
- I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think… — Kevin Bacon
- I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching… — Kevin Bacon
- You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light. — Edward Abbey
- It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary. Life does… — Saint Basil
- Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul. — Ezra Taft Benson
- No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have… — Annie Besant
- Education is the movement from darkness to light. — Allan Bloom
- Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom… — Emily Bronte
- I'll speak for myself, but there's a lot of humor to be found in sarcasm and darkness. You talk to any paramedic,… — Nicolas Cage
- Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness. — Julia Cameron