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New Quotes by Thomas Merton
- Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder.
- Each individual Christian and each new age of the Church has to make this rediscovery, this return to the source of Christian life.
- The deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless. It is beyond words, and it is beyond speech, and it is…
- It is the will of God that we live not only as rational beings, but as "new men" regenerated by the Holy Spirit in Christ.…
- You have got me walking up and down all day under those trees, saying to me over and over again, "Solitude, solitude." And You have…
- Imagination has the creative task of making symbols, joining things together in such a way that they throw new light on each other and on…
- Teach me to take all grace / And spring it into blades of act, / Grow spears and sheaves of charity, / While each new…
- Faith is a light of such supreme brilliance that it dazzles the mind and darkens all its visions of other realities, but in the end…
- The Christian life, and especially the contemplative life, is a continual discovery of Christ in new and unexpected places.
- Paradoxically, I have found peace because I have always been dissatisfied. My moments of depression and despair turn out to be renewals, new beginnings. If…
- To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us - and He has given us everything. Every breath…
- 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…
- We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of…
- Living is not thinking. Thought is formed and guided by objective reality outside us. Living is the constant adjustment of thought to life and life…
- We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of…
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- Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship. — Julian Assange
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- The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. — Jose Maria Aznar
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- Research is creating new knowledge. — Neil Armstrong
- I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium. — Neil Armstrong
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find… — David Attenborough
- I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when… — Margaret Atwood
- Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart. — Kevyn Aucoin