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Presence Quotes by Thomas Merton
- Silence has many dimensions. It can be a regression and an escape, a loss of self, or it can be presence, awareness, unification, self-discovery. Negative…
- 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.…
- Contemplation is the loving sense of this life, this presence and this eternity.
- The whole world has risen in Christ... If God is 'all in all,' then everything is in fact paradise, because it is filled with the…
- 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…
- Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.
- This act of total surrender is not merely a fantastic intellectual and mystical gamble; it is something much more serious. It is an act of…
- We thank Him less by words than by the serene happiness of silent acceptance. It is our emptiness in the presence of His reality, our…
- 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…
- In this age of crowds in which I have determined to be a solitary, perhaps the greatest sin would be to lament the presence of…
More Presence Quotes
- In practice, I've had a presence in China since 1998 with my commercial spaces and shops. — Giorgio Armani
- Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence. — Johann Sebastian Bach
- You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social presence in… — Amitabh Bachchan
- When our Heavenly Father placed Adam and Eve on this earth, He did so with the purpose in mind of teaching them… — Ezra Taft Benson
- Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. — Orlando Bloom
- I was an agnostic until I realized that I had to choose between God and fate. The idea that humanity and nature… — Andrea Bocelli
- If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let… — W. E. B. Du Bois
- Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his world. He… — David Bowie
- Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated… — David Byrne
- My presence in the social media and on the Internet is much bigger than many of the other candidates, including Mitt Romney.… — Herman Cain
- A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and… — Albert Camus
- It is near thirty years since He made it sure; and since that time, though there has fallen out much sin, yet… — Donald Cargill