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Sun Quotes by Thomas Merton
- As a magnifying glass concentrates the rays of the sun into a little burning knot of heat that can set fire to a dry leaf…
- Our thought should not merely be an answer to what someone else has just said. Or what someone else might have said. Our interior world…
- I have the immense joy of being man, a member of a race in which God Himself became incarnate. As if the sorrows and stupidities…
- The humble person receives praise the way a clean window takes the light of the sun. The truer and more intense the light is, the…
- 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…
- There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun.
More Sun Quotes
- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi
- The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed… — Alfred Austin
- You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is… — Sai Baba
- Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but… — Gamaliel Bailey
- Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us,… — James A. Baldwin
- The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. — Henry Ward Beecher
- We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving… — Henry Ward Beecher
- The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in… — Joseph Addison
- Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. — Alexander Graham Bell
- The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that… — Cyrano de Bergerac
- For an Apple is in it self a little Universe; the Seed, hotter than the other parts thereof, is its Sun, which… — Cyrano de Bergerac
- I planted my self in the middle of a great many Glasses full of Dew, tied fast about me, upon which the… — Cyrano de Bergerac