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Souls Quotes by Thomas Merton
- Consequently, the truth of God lives in our souls more by the power of superior moral courage than by the light of an eminent intelligence.…
- There is not true intimacy between souls who do not know how to respect one another's solitude.
- Grace is not a strange, magic substance which is subtly filtered into our souls to act as a kind of spiritual penicillin. Grace is unity,…
- The married man and the mother of a Christian family, if they are faithful to their obligations, will fulfill a mission that is as great…
- Creation was given to people as a clean window through which the light of God could shine into people's souls. Sun and moon, night and…
- Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of…
- God has left sin in the world in order that there may be forgiveness: not only the secret forgiveness by which He Himself cleanses our…
- To love blindly is to love selfishly, because the goal of such love is not the real advantage of the beloved but only the exercise…
More Souls Quotes
- If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe. — Saint Augustine
- Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are… — Teresa of Avila
- On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam… — Diane Ackerman
- Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. — Gaston Bachelard
- I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think… — Kevin Bacon
- Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart. — Honore de Balzac
- Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken… — Gary Bauer
- Live your life fom your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls. — Melody Beattie
- We must not lose hope. Hope is an anchor to the souls of men. Satan would have us cast away that anchor. — Ezra Taft Benson
- Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings,… — Ingmar Bergman
- Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. — Aesop
- One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one… — W. E. B. Du Bois