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Upon Quotes by Thomas Merton
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- I had refused to pay any attention to the moral laws upon which all our vitality and sanity depend: and so now I was reduced…
- The land which thou goest to possess is not like the land of Egypt from whence thou camest out... For my thoughts are not your…
- For language to have meaning, there must be intervals of silence somewhere, to divide word from word and utterance from utterance. He who retires into…
- 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…
- To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.
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- Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
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