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Merely Quotes by Thomas Merton
- The mission of Christian humility in social life is not merely to edify, but to keep minds open to many alternatives. The rigidity of a…
- 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…
- It is not merely our own desire but the desire of Christ in His Spirit that drives us to grow in love. Those who seldom…
- To know the Cross is not merely to know our own sufferings. For the Cross is the sign of salvation, and no man is saved…
- The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived.
- To be truly Catholic is not merely to be correct according to an abstractly universal standard of truth, but also and above all to be…
- Once you have grace," I said to him, "you are free. Without it, you cannot help doing the things you know you should not do,…
- We too often forget that faith is a matter of questioning and struggle before it becomes one of certitude and peace. You have to doubt…
- To some men peace merely means the liberty to exploit other people without fear of retaliation or interference. To others peace means the freedom to…
- 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…
- Merely to resist evil with evil by hating those who hate us and seeking to destroy them, is actually no resistance at all. It is…
- This act of total surrender is not merely a fantastic intellectual and mystical gamble; it is something much more serious. It is an act of…
- The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself with people. But the…
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- A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
- I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted… — Lucille Ball
- The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks. — Douglas Adams
- He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that… — Douglas Adams
- I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand… — Henry Adams
- To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. — Max Beerbohm
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