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Spirituality Quotes by Thomas Merton
- God utters me like a word containing a partial thought of him. A word will never be able to comprehend the voice that utters it.…
- The importance of detachment from things, the importance of poverty, is that we are supposed to be free from things that we might prefer to…
- The simplest and most effective way to sanctity is to disappear into the background of ordinary every day routine.
- 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…
- A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you…
- By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure,…
- The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one…
- If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.
- Saints are what they are not because their sanctity makes them admirable to others, but because the gift of sainthood makes it possible for them…
- The only true liberty is in the service of that which is beyond all limits, beyond all definitions, beyond all human appreciation: that which is…
- No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine…
- What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?
- As long as I continue to take myself seriously, how can I consider myself a saint? How can I consider myself a contemplative? For the…
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- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs. — Saint Augustine
- Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it. — Sri Aurobindo
- To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs. — Sri Aurobindo
- Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul. — Teresa of Avila
- Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man… — Sai Baba
- Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
- Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with… — Richard Bach
- The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent… — Honore de Balzac
- Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God. — Francis Bacon
- Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales,… — Francis Bacon