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Way Quotes by Thomas Merton
- Meditation is one of the ways in which the spiritual man keeps himself awake.
- We who claim to love peace and justice must always be careful that we do not use our righteousness to provoke the violent, and in…
- The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reasoning and analysis, but first of all by living. For…
- 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…
- The devil is no fool. He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought to feel about hell. He can make them fear…
- I have the immense joy of being man, a member of a race in which God Himself became incarnate. As if the sorrows and stupidities…
- The real hope is not in something we think we can do, but in God, who is making something good out of it in some…
- To those who have no personal experience of this revolutionary aspect of Christian truth, but who see only the outer crust of dead, human conservatism…
- Actions are the doors and windows of being. Unless we act, we have no way of knowing what we are.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- The humble person receives praise the way a clean window takes the light of the sun. The truer and more intense the light is, the…
- Ultimately faith is the only key to the universe. The final meaning of human existence, and the answers to the questions on which all our…
- The thing about Zen is that it pushes contradictions to their ultimate limit where one has to choose between madness and innocence. Zen suggests that…
- Prayer is not so much a way to find God as a way of resting in him...who loves us, who is near to us...
- The simplest and most effective way to sanctity is to disappear into the background of ordinary every day routine.
- 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…
- You must realize that it is the ordinary way of God's dealings with us that our ideas do not work out speedily and efficiently as…
- 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…
- The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.
- 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…
- Solitude is a way to defend the spirit against the murderous din of our materialism.
- Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation…
- It is true that neither the ancient wisdoms nor the modern sciences are complete in themselves. They do not stand alone. They call for one…
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- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. — Aristotle
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