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Values Quotes by Thomas Merton
- The things I thought were so important -- because of the effort I put into them -- have turned out to be of small value.…
- It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. For the beginning of humility is the…
- 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…
- Love is not a mere emotion or sentiment. It is the lucid and ardent responses of the whole person to a value that is revealed…
- 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…
- I am beginning to realize that "sanity" is no longer a value or an end in itself. If modern people were a little less sane,…
- 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…
- Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve…
- When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to…
- The fruitfulness of our lives depends in large measure in our ability to doubt our own words and to question the value of our own…
More Values Quotes
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values. — A. Bartlett Giamatti
- If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead,… — Gary Bauer
- The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that… — C.S. Lewis
- There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree… — Samuel Johnson
- [Our goal] is to help revive America's traditional values: faith, family, neighborhood, work and freedom. Government has no business enforcing these values… — Ronald Reagan
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and… — Samuel Johnson