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Wisdom Quotes by Thomas Merton
- There is in all visible things an invisible fecundity, a dimmed light, a meek namelessness, a hidden wholeness. This mysterious unity and integrity is wisdom,…
- In the end, it's the reality of personal realtionships that save everything.
- I believe we are going to have to prepare ourselves for the difficult and patient task of outgrowing rigid and intransigent nationalism, and work slowly…
- Because You have called me here not to wear a label by which I can recognize myself and place myself in some kind of a…
- Once you have grace," I said to him, "you are free. Without it, you cannot help doing the things you know you should not do,…
- The secret of my full identity is hidden in Him. He alone can make me who I am, or rather who I will be when…
- 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…
- There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.
- In any case, his religious teaching consisted mostly in more or less vague ethical remarks, an obscure mixture of ideals of English gentlemanliness and his…
- 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…
- It is the will of God that we live not only as rational beings, but as "new men" regenerated by the Holy Spirit in Christ.…
- 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…
- Therefore, doing the Stations of the Cross was still more laborious than consoling, and required a sacrifice. It was much the same with all my…
- His justice is the love that gives to each one of His creatures the gifts that His mercy has previously decreed. And His mercy is…
- And of course most non-Catholics imagine that the Church is immensely rich, and that all Catholic institutions make money hand over fist, and that all…
- Show us your Christ, Lady, after this our exile, yes: but show Him to us also now, show Him to us here, while we are…
- You have got me walking up and down all day under those trees, saying to me over and over again, "Solitude, solitude." And You have…
- The most awful tyranny is that of the proximate Utopia where the last sins are currently being eliminated and where, tomorrow, there will be no…
- To desire Him to be merciful to us is to acknowledge Him as God. To seek His pity when we deserve no pity is to…
- The silence of the spheres is the music of a wedding feast. The more we persist in misunderstanding the phenomena of life, the more we…
- Consequently, the truth of God lives in our souls more by the power of superior moral courage than by the light of an eminent intelligence.…
- Our technological society has no longer any place in it for wisdom that seeks truth for its own sake, that seeks the fullness of being,…
- 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,…
- 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…
- The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to be carried away…
More Wisdom Quotes
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- You teach best what you most need to learn. — Richard Bach
- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold