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Kind Quotes by Thomas Merton
- Each one of us has some kind of vocation. We are all called by God to share in His life and in His Kingdom. Each…
- What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning…
- Because You have called me here not to wear a label by which I can recognize myself and place myself in some kind of a…
- Grace is not a strange, magic substance which is subtly filtered into our souls to act as a kind of spiritual penicillin. Grace is unity,…
- 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 artist should preach nothing-not even his own autonomy. His art should speak its own truth, and in so doing it will be in harmony…
- The artistic experience, at its highest, was actually a natural analogue of mystical experience. It produced a kind of intuitive of perception.
- I refuse to be misled by any kind of a mirage about any alleged success of what I write. Those things are too easily exaggerated,…
- Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by…
- Indeed, it is a kind of quintessence of pride to hate and fear even the kind and legitimate approval of those who love us! I…
- It is a kind of pride to insist that none of our prayers should ever be petitions for our own needs: for this is only…
- Peace cannot be built on exclusivism, absolutism, and intolerance. But neither can it be built on vague liberal slogans and pious programs gestated in the…
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- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
- Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought… — Mary Astell
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this… — Rowan Atkinson
- There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of… — David Attenborough
- When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines. — Margaret Atwood
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