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Truly Quotes by Thomas Merton
- It is in deep solitude and silence that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brother and sister.
- I have learned that one cannot truly know hope unless he has found out how like despair hope is.
- 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…
- The monk in hiding himself from the world becomes not less than himself, not less of a person, but more of a person, more truly…
- In our creation, God asked a question and in our truly living; God answers the question.
- Our Christian destiny is, in fact, a great one: but we cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great. For our own…
- 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…
- It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am, the more…
More Truly Quotes
- Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation… — Marcus Aurelius
- Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. — Marcus Aurelius
- Anyone who truly loves God travels securely. — Teresa of Avila
- Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there? — Richard Bach
- It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. — Francis Bacon
- Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood… — Anita Baker
- The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains. — Josephine Baker
- I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from… — Mikhail Bakunin
- It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them.… — Christian Bale
- To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love,… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello. — Roger Bannister
- I truly thank whoever's up there for giving me the opportunity to be loved. — Javier Bardem