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Ideas Quotes by Thomas Merton
- My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain…
- People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger than the whole of hell.
- The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the other.... The whole purpose of life is to live by love.
- 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…
- The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one…
- 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…
- Keeping a journal has taught me that there is not so much new in your life as you sometimes think. When you re-read your journal…
- Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.
- A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying [God]. It “consents,”…
- A purely mental life may be destructive if it leads us to substitute thought for life and ideas for actions. The activity proper to man…
- Our Christian destiny is, in fact, a great one: but we cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great. For our own…
- Thinking about monastic ideals is not the same as living up to them, but at any rate such thinking has an important place in a…
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- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
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- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. — Giorgio Armani
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. — Mary Kay Ash
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe