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Over Quotes by Thomas Merton
- For perfect hope is achieved on the brink of despair, when instead of falling over the edge, we find ourselves walking on air.
- 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…
- It is easy enough to tell the poor to accept their poverty as Gods will when you yourself have warm clothes and plenty of food…
- For now, oh my God, it is to You alone that I can talk, because nobody else will understand. I cannot bring any other man…
- Nonviolence seeks to ‘win’ not by destroying or even by humiliating the adversary, but by convincing [the adversary] that there is a higher and more…
- The silence of the forest is my bride and the sweet dark warmth of the whole world is my love, and out of the heart…
- 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…
- 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…
- To some men peace merely means the liberty to exploit other people without fear of retaliation or interference. To others peace means the freedom to…
- You must realize that it is the ordinary way of God's dealings with us that our ideas do not work out speedily and efficiently as…
- Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation.
- Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more.
- Day after day I read Freud, thinking myself to be very enlightened and scientific when, as a matter of fact, I was about as scientific…
More Over Quotes
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight,… — Hank Azaria
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House… — Neil Armstrong
- I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places. — John Ashbery
- Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world. — Isaac Asimov
- The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another,… — Bashar al-Assad
- The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you… — Chinua Achebe
- It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to… — David Attenborough