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Best Things Quotes by Thomas Merton
- 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…
- O God, teach me to be satisfied with my own helplessness in the spiritual life. Teach me to be content with Your grace that comes…
- Things that are good are good, and if one is responding to that goodness one is in contact with a truth from which one is…
- Memory is corrupted and ruined by a crowd of memories. If I am going to have a true memory, there are a thousand things that…
- 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…
- Cupidity...takes created things for ends in themselves, which they are not. The will that seeks rest in creatures for their own sake stops on the…
- I refuse to be misled by any kind of a mirage about any alleged success of what I write. Those things are too easily exaggerated,…
- It is a kind of pride to insist that none of our prayers should ever be petitions for our own needs: for this is only…
- Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If…
- The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your…
- The Hindus are not looking for us to send them men who will build schools and hospitals, although those things are good and useful in…
- How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. They make us think that we really understand things of which…
- 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…
- In all His acts God orders all things, whether good or evil, for the good of those who know Him and seek Him and who…
- Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking about spiritual things. Even with the best of intentions…
- Every man becomes the image of the God he adores. He whose worship is directed to a dead thing becomes dead. He who loves corruption…
- Words stand between silence and silence: between the silence of things and the silence of our own being. Between the silence of the world and…
- When we are strong, we are always much greater than the things that happen to us.
- We are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and God is shining through it all the time. God manifests Himself everywhere, in everything…
- 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…
- Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
- Humble people can do great things with uncommon perfection because they are no longer concerned about their own interests and their own reputation, and therefore…
- The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer…
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