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Order Quotes by Thomas Merton
- Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
- Are they moved by a sense of human need for silence, for reflection, for inner seeking? So they want to get away from the noise…
- The things we really need come to us only as gifts, and in order to receive them as gifts we have to be open. In…
- In order to find God in ourselves, we must stop looking at ourselves, stop checking and verifying ourselves in the mirror of our own futility,…
- 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…
- We do not pray for the sake of praying, but for the sake of being heard. We do not pray in order to listen to…
- Christ is born to us today, in order that he may appear to the whole world through us.
- Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul into a higher spiritual order, which it expresses and in some sense explains.
- 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…
- 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…
- Every man has a vocation to be someone: but he must understand clearly that in order to fulfill this vocation he can only be one…
- Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a person deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order…
- It is true that neither the ancient wisdoms nor the modern sciences are complete in themselves. They do not stand alone. They call for one…
- 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…
- In all His acts God orders all things, whether good or evil, for the good of those who know Him and seek Him and who…
- Our Christian destiny is, in fact, a great one: but we cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great. For our own…
- God has left sin in the world in order that there may be forgiveness: not only the secret forgiveness by which He Himself cleanses our…
More Order Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach
- Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for them to… — Frank Abagnale
- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. — David Attenborough
- The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to… — Norman Ralph Augustine
- The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. — Marcus Aurelius
- Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of… — Jane Austen
- When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to… — Teresa of Avila