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Within Quotes by Thomas Merton
- If there is no silence beyond and within the many words of doctrine, there is no religion, only a religious ideology. For religion goes beyond…
- True encounter with Christ liberates something within us, a power we did not know we had, a capacity to grow and change.
- There is in us an instinct for newness, for renewal, for a liberation of creative power. We seek to awaken in ourselves a force which…
- The most dangerous man in the world is the contemplative who is guided by nobody. He trusts his own visions. He obeys the attractions of an interior…
- To be alone by being part of the universe-fitting in completely to an environment of woods and silence and peace. Everything you do becomes a…
- Grace is not a strange, magic substance which is subtly filtered into our souls to act as a kind of spiritual penicillin. Grace is unity,…
- Others can give you a name or a number, but they can never tell you who you really are. That is something you yourself can…
- Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by…
- I just remember their kindness and goodness to me, and their peacefulness and their utter simplicity. They inspired real reverence, and I think, in a…
- There are days when I am convinced that Heaven starts already, now, in this ordinary life just as it is, in all its incompleteness, yet,…
More Within Quotes
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about… — Karen Armstrong
- My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity. — Arthur Ashe
- I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours… — David Attenborough
- There is good and mediocre writing within every genre. — Margaret Atwood
- Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people… — Margaret Atwood
- During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks. — John James Audubon
- Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine
- By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity. — Saint Augustine
- I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within. — Saint Augustine
- Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. — Marcus Aurelius