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Other Men Quotes by Thomas Merton
- As long as we are on earth, the love that unites us will bring us suffering by our very contact with one another, because this…
- Our God...is a consuming fire. And if we, by love, become transformed into Him and burn as He burns, His fire will be our everlasting…
- We who claim to love peace and justice must always be careful that we do not use our righteousness to provoke the violent, and in…
- One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is more suspicious, in…
- 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…
- 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…
- Contemplation in the age of Auschwitz and Dachau, Solovky and Karaganda is something darker and more fearsome than contemplation in the age of the Church…
- The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other…
- 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…
- Words stand between silence and silence: between the silence of things and the silence of our own being. Between the silence of the world and…
- The devil makes many disciples by preaching against sin. He convinces them that the great evil of sin, induces a crisis of guilt by which…
More Other Men Quotes
- He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont… — Isaac Asimov
- I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from… — Mikhail Bakunin
- No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal… — Ansel Adams
- Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love. — Saul Bellow
- Other men wear white suits in summer and it doesn't seem to bother them. But my white suit seems to be a… — Robert Benchley
- Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men. — Mortimer Adler
- [M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
- The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you — Charles Dickens
- The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent… — Woodrow Wilson
- Knowledge of the enemy's dispositions can only be obtained from other men. — Sun Tzu
- Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with… — George Santayana