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We Cannot Quotes by Thomas Merton
- 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…
- We cannot master everything, taste everything, understand everything, drain every experience to its last dregs. But if we have the courage to let almost everything…
- We cannot love ourselves unless we love others, and we cannot love others unless we love ourselves. But a selfish love of ourselves makes us…
- 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…
- We cannot arrive at the perfect possession of God in this life, and that is why we are travelling and in darkness. But we already…
- The only thing to seek in contemplative prayer is God; and we seek Him successfully when we realize that we cannot find Him unless He…
- 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…
- If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts.
- What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?
More We Cannot Quotes
- Just as cherry, plum, peach and damson blossoms all possess their own unique qualities, each person is unique. We cannot become someone… — Daisaku Ikeda
- You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future… — Richard Martin Stern
- We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot… — ZhatsPrincess
- We cannot beg someone to stay if they wanna leave and be with someone else. We have to admit that love doesn't… — Pacifiersucker
- Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs. — Saint Augustine
- We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law. — Mahmoud Abbas
- That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove. — Dan Brown