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Our Own Quotes by Thomas Merton
- At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark…
- 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…
- God must be allowed the right to speak unpredictably.... We must find him in our enemy, or we may lose him even in our friend.…
- 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,…
- Conscience is the light by which we interpret the will of God in our own lives.
- If we live with possibilities we are exiles from the present which is given us by God to be our own, homeless and displaced 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…
- 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…
- It is true that we are called to create a better world. But we are first of all called to a more immediate and exalted…
- Each one of us has some kind of vocation. We are all called by God to share in His life and in His Kingdom. Each…
- All men who live only according to their five senses, and seek nothing beyond the gratification of their natural appetites for pleasure and reputation and…
- What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning…
- 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.…
- The silence of the spheres is the music of a wedding feast. The more we persist in misunderstanding the phenomena of life, the more we…
- Not only does silence give us a chance to understand ourselves better, to get a truer and more balanced perspective on our own lives in…
- True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a gift, and not as a result…
- 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 evil in the world is all of our own making, and it proceeds entirely from our ruthless, senseless, wasteful, destructive, and suicidal neglect of…
- 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…
- The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we…
- It is a kind of pride to insist that none of our prayers should ever be petitions for our own needs: for this is only…
- When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to…
- The lights of prayer that make us imagine we are beginning to be angels are sometimes only signs that we are finally beginning to be…
- The fruitfulness of our lives depends in large measure in our ability to doubt our own words and to question the value of our own…
- Our vocation is not simply to be, but to work together with God in the creation of our own life, our own identity, our own…
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- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time. — Margaret Atwood
- Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best. — Jane Austen
- The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In… — Paul Auster
- As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters,… — Diane Ackerman
- It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin. — Teresa of Avila
- The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman
- We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health… — Diane Ackerman
- Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens. — Peter Ackroyd
- We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right… — Michele Bachmann