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Experience Quotes by Thomas Merton
- Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep inexpressible certitude of…
- Some of us need to discover that we will not begin to live more fully until we have the courage to do and see and…
- As a magnifying glass concentrates the rays of the sun into a little burning knot of heat that can set fire to a dry leaf…
- The whole aim of Zen is not to make foolproof statements about experience, but to come to direct grips with reality without the mediation of…
- 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…
- 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…
- What does it mean to know and experience my own “nothingness?” It is not enough to turn away in disgust from my illusions and faults…
- The artistic experience, at its highest, was actually a natural analogue of mystical experience. It produced a kind of intuitive of perception.
- Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
- To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us - and He has given us everything. Every breath…
- To enter into the realm of contemplation, one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance into a higher…
- Faith is the door to the full inner life of the Church, a life which includes not only access to an authoritative teaching but above…
- Our knowledge of God is perfected by gratiitude: we are thankful and rejoice in the experience of the truth that He is love...
- The grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference.
More Experience Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so… — Sholem Asch
- We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs. — Bashar al-Assad
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. — Chinua Achebe
- People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own… — Chinua Achebe
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences. — Saint Augustine
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine
- To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. — Teresa of Avila