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Everything Quotes by Thomas Merton
- To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything.
- Good moral actions are not enough. Everything in us, from the very depths, must be cleansed and reordered...
- But it certainly is a wonderful thing to wake up suddenly in the solitude of the woods and look up at the sky and see…
- In the end, it's the reality of personal realtionships that save everything.
- We know when we are following our vocation when our soul is set free from preoccupation with itself and is able to seek God and…
- The whole world has risen in Christ... If God is 'all in all,' then everything is in fact paradise, because it is filled with the…
- We cannot master everything, taste everything, understand everything, drain every experience to its last dregs. But if we have the courage to let almost everything…
- I am willing to admit that some people might live there for years, or even a lifetime, so protected that they never sense the sweet…
- Imagination has the creative task of making symbols, joining things together in such a way that they throw new light on each other and on…
- To be alone by being part of the universe-fitting in completely to an environment of woods and silence and peace. Everything you do becomes a…
- Our minds are like crows. They pick up everything that glitters, no matter how uncomfortable our nests get with all that metal in them.
- 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…
- We too often forget that faith is a matter of questioning and struggle before it becomes one of certitude and peace. You have to doubt…
- 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…
- Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve…
- To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many…
- If our life is poured out in useless words, we will never hear anything, never become anything, and in the end, because we have said…
- To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us - and He has given us everything. Every breath…
- Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking about spiritual things. Even with the best of intentions…
- But the man who is not afraid to admit everything that he sees to be wrong with himself, and yet recognizes that he may be…
- We are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and God is shining through it all the time. God manifests Himself everywhere, in everything…
- 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…
More Everything Quotes
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- I tend to think that there is a sophistication to everything at 'Saturday Night Live,' including the sketches. — Fred Armisen
- I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable.… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for,… — Thomas Arnold
- Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn! — Victoria Abril
- People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. — Isaac Asimov
- In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources… — Julian Assange
- The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing. — Nancy Astor
- London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want,… — David Attenborough
- My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never… — Lee Atwater
- People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make. — Margaret Atwood
- Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood