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Things Quotes by Thomas Merton
- As long as we are on earth, the love that unites us will bring us suffering by our very contact with one another, because this…
- The things we really need come to us only as gifts, and in order to receive them as gifts we have to be open. In…
- To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect on me is to live on the doorstep of hell. Selfishness…
- There is in all visible things an invisible fecundity, a dimmed light, a meek namelessness, a hidden wholeness. This mysterious unity and integrity is wisdom,…
- If a writer is so cautious that he never writes anything that cannot be criticized, he will never be able to write anything that can…
- One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is more suspicious, in…
- In order to find God in ourselves, we must stop looking at ourselves, stop checking and verifying ourselves in the mirror of our own futility,…
- The things I thought were so important -- because of the effort I put into them -- have turned out to be of small value.…
- 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…
- The basic problem is not political, it is a-political and human. One of the most important things to do is to keep cutting deliberately through…
- For our duties and our needs, in all the fundamental things for which we were created, come down in practice to the same thing.
- For now, oh my God, it is to You alone that I can talk, because nobody else will understand. I cannot bring any other man…
- One of the most important-and most neglected-elements in the beginning of the interior life is the ability to respond to reality, to see the value…
- In humility is the greatest freedom. As long as you have to defend the imaginary self that you think is important, you lose your piece…
- When I pray for peace, I pray not only that the enemies of my own country may cease to want war, but above all that…
- To be truly Catholic is not merely to be correct according to an abstractly universal standard of truth, but also and above all to be…
- Once you have grace," I said to him, "you are free. Without it, you cannot help doing the things you know you should not do,…
- I seek to speak to you, in some way, as your own self. Who can tell what this may meanI myself do not know, but…
- You have got me walking up and down all day under those trees, saying to me over and over again, "Solitude, solitude." And You have…
- The silence of the spheres is the music of a wedding feast. The more we persist in misunderstanding the phenomena of life, the more we…
- 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…
- If you have love you will do all things well.
- Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.
- He who hopes in God trusts God, Whom he never sees, to bring him to the possession of things that are beyond imagination.
- There is in all visible things - a hidden wholeness.
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle