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Good Quotes by Thomas Merton
- Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false Self. We are not very good at recognizing illusions, least of all the…
- Good moral actions are not enough. Everything in us, from the very depths, must be cleansed and reordered...
- The desire to kill is like the desire to attack another with a red hot iron. I have to pick up the incandescent metal and…
- After all, what is your personal identity? It is what you really are, your real self. None of us is what he thinks he is,…
- I see no contradiction between Buddhism and Christianity ... I intend to become as good a Buddhist as I can.
- Nonviolence seeks to ‘win’ not by destroying or even by humiliating the adversary, but by convincing [the adversary] that there is a higher and more…
- The real hope is not in something we think we can do, but in God, who is making something good out of it in some…
- What do I mean by loving ourselves properly? I mean first of all, desiring to live, accepting life as a very great gift and a…
- 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…
- It might be good to open our eyes and see.
- The thing about Zen is that it pushes contradictions to their ultimate limit where one has to choose between madness and innocence. Zen suggests that…
- For power can guarantee the interests of some men but it can never foster the good of man. Power always protects the good of some…
- If it so happened that I had once written a best-seller, this was a pure accident, due to inattention and naivete, and I would take…
- Things that are good are good, and if one is responding to that goodness one is in contact with a truth from which one is…
- You must realize that it is the ordinary way of God's dealings with us that our ideas do not work out speedily and efficiently as…
- In meditative prayer, one thinks and speaks not only with the mind and lips, but in a certain sense with one's whole being... All good…
- If there was no other proof of the infinite patience of God, a very good one could be found in His toleration of the pictures…
- Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore,…
- Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.
- ....it is of the very essence of Christianity to face suffering and death not because they are good, not because they have meaning, but because…
- To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us - and He has given us everything. Every breath…
- The Hindus are not looking for us to send them men who will build schools and hospitals, although those things are good and useful in…
- What do you want to want to be, anyway?" "I don't know; I guess what I want to be is a good Catholic." "What you…
- In all His acts God orders all things, whether good or evil, for the good of those who know Him and seek Him and who…
- The grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference.
More Good Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle