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Interior Quotes by Thomas Merton
- Our real journey in life is interior; It is a matter of growth, deepening, and of an ever greater surrender to the creative action of…
- Our real journey in life is interior.
- When society is made up of men who know no interior solitude it can no longer be held together by love: and consequently it is…
- 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…
- One of the most important-and most neglected-elements in the beginning of the interior life is the ability to respond to reality, to see the value…
- The most dangerous man in the world is the contemplative who is guided by nobody. He trusts his own visions. He obeys the attractions of an interior…
- The monk in hiding himself from the world becomes not less than himself, not less of a person, but more of a person, more truly…
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- To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter, could function… — Pope Benedict XVI
- I like to do interior design, I love to quilt, I love to see different colors together, and I love to match… — Mary J. Blige
- I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the… — A. R. Ammons
- Music is interior decoration. — Wayne Shorter
- In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the… — Louise Erdrich
- Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed to prove… — Carl Sagan
- When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
- The tongue is a small member, but it does big things. A religious who does not keep silence will never attain holiness;… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
- A talkative soul lacks both the essential virtues and intimacy with God. A deeper interior life, one of gentle peace and of… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
- The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it… — Simone Weil
- One of the characteristics of love relationships that flower is a relatively high degree of mutual self-disclosure - a willingness to let… — Nathaniel Branden