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Seeks Quotes by Thomas Merton
- The desire to kill is like the desire to attack another with a red hot iron. I have to pick up the incandescent metal and…
- 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…
- Our technological society has no longer any place in it for wisdom that seeks truth for its own sake, that seeks the fullness of being,…
- 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…
- Cupidity...takes created things for ends in themselves, which they are not. The will that seeks rest in creatures for their own sake stops on the…
- Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore,…
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- The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else. — Frederic Bastiat
- Each generation, as it seeks to advance the common good, must ask anew: 'What are the requirements that governments may reasonably impose… — Pope Benedict XVI
- And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea. And that… — Tony Blair
- The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity,… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
- President Obama is determined that our foreign and national security policies not play into al-Qa'ida's strategy or its warped ideology. Al-Qa'ida seeks… — John O. Brennan
- One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched. — Jean de la Bruyere
- The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping . — Dale Carnegie
- Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to… — Jean Cocteau
- The whole Christ seeks after each sinner, and when the Lord finds it, he gives himself to that one soul as if… — Charles Spurgeon
- If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both. — Horace Mann
- Effective prayer is prayer that attains what it seeks. It is prayer that moves God, effecting its end. — Charles Grandison Finney