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Such Quotes by Thomas Merton
- This is the greatest stumbling block in our spiritual discipline, which, in actuality, consists not in getting rid of the self but in realizing the…
- In general, it can be said that no contemplative life is possible without ascetic self-discipline. One must learn to survive without the habit-forming luxuries which…
- What is 'grace'? It is God's own life, shared by us. God's life is love. Deus caritas est. By grace we are able to share…
- The true contemplative is one who has discovered the art of finding leisure even in the midst of his work, by working with such a…
- Imagination has the creative task of making symbols, joining things together in such a way that they throw new light on each other and on…
- Hurry ruins saints as well as artists. They want quick success, and they are in such a hurry to get it that they cannot take…
- Faith is a light of such supreme brilliance that it dazzles the mind and darkens all its visions of other realities, but in the end…
- The reality that is present to us and in us: call it being...Silence. And the simple fact that by being attentive, by learning to listen…
- In the spiritual life there is no such thing as an indifference to love or hate.
- When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to…
- Living is not thinking. Thought is formed and guided by objective reality outside us. Living is the constant adjustment of thought to life and life…
- Who is willing to be satisfied with a job that expresses all his limitations? He will accept such work only as a 'means of livelihood'…
- 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…
- 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…
- Thinking about monastic ideals is not the same as living up to them, but at any rate such thinking has an important place in a…
More Such Quotes
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- A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like… — Rudolf Arnheim
- The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and… — Chester A. Arthur
- We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have… — Mary Kay Ash
- These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of… — William Henry Ashley
- I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my… — Isaac Asimov
- We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us.… — Julian Assange
- The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely… — Rowan Atkinson
- But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness… — Rowan Atkinson
- I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune. — David Attenborough
- All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that… — David Attenborough