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Most Quotes by Thomas Merton
- I suppose what makes me most glad is that we all recognize each other in this metaphysical space of silence and happening, and get some…
- We stumble and fall constantly, even when we are most enlightened.
- Some of us need to discover that we will not begin to live more fully until we have the courage to do and see and…
- On Pride: This sickness is most dangerous when it succeeds in looking like humility. When a proud man thinks he is humble his case is…
- Be human in this most inhuman of ages; guard the image of man for it is the image of God.
- What a thing it is to sit absolutely alone, in the forest, at night, cherished by this wonderful, unintelligible, perfectly innocent speech, the most comforting…
- There is in us an instinct for newness, for renewal, for a liberation of creative power. We seek to awaken in ourselves a force which…
- 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,…
- The basic problem is not political, it is a-political and human. One of the most important things to do is to keep cutting deliberately through…
- The Holy Spirit is the most perfect gift of the Father to men, and yet He is the one gift which the Father gives most…
- 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…
- If we examine ourselves carefully we shall see most of us have an enormous amount of unfinished business...We have to be free so that we…
- Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice.
- And of course most non-Catholics imagine that the Church is immensely rich, and that all Catholic institutions make money hand over fist, and that all…
- The most awful tyranny is that of the proximate Utopia where the last sins are currently being eliminated and where, tomorrow, there will be no…
- Weaknesses and deficiencies . . . play a most important part in all our lives. It is because of them that we need others and…
- It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him also in that…
- The simplest and most effective way to sanctity is to disappear into the background of ordinary every day routine.
- I am against war, against violence, against violent revolution, for peaceful settlement of differences, for nonviolent but nevertheless radical changes. Change is needed, and violence…
- The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to be carried away…
- We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that…
- Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and…
- What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is…
- The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster