Thomas Merton Quote by Stephen Adly Guirgis Download Open image ““Thomas Merton said, “To be a saint means to be myself.”” — Stephen Adly Guirgis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Thomas Merton
“Thomas Merton asked, “What am I?” and answered, “I am myself a word spoken by God.” How we perceive ourselves, who we think ourselves… — Stuart Briscoe Copy Share Image
“It is possible for any man, by good deeds, to enshrine himself as a Saint in the hearts of the people.” — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
“A saint is a human being who neither wants nor needs to hurt you.” — Judith Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Thomas Aquinas was asked, “What must I do to be a saint?” and he said, “Will it.” Be a saint, and you’ll unleash the… — Robert E. Barron Copy Share Image
“People call me a saint and I think, I have to work harder. Because a saint would be a great thing to be.” -… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
“If you are humble, nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are. If you are blamed, you won’t… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“A saint is a person who is reborn from his grave where he was trapped by living in himself. The time has come for… — Woo Myung Copy Share Image
To be a saint is to be a little out of one's mind, which is a very good thing to be a little out… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“I thought I could fit everything into tidy boxes and sort right from wrong. But now I see that sometimes a saint acts like… — Amanda Cox Copy Share Image
I think anything that anyone writes thats any good is going to have a lot of autobiography. — Stephen Adly Guirgis Copy Share Image
“JUDGE LITTLEFIELD (re: the writ): Cunningham, I do not like it when lawyers go over my head. CUNNINGHAM: You gave me no choice. EL-FAYOUMY:… — Stephen Adly Guirgis Copy Share Image
“Oh, just some crap about the essential paradox of man: How we refuse to juxtapose the absolute to the relative, and some other some-such… — Stephen Adly Guirgis Copy Share Image
“What is it that we need to overcome in order to truly be “Ourselves”?” — Stephen Adly Guirgis Copy Share Image
“I do know that I am in continuous need of the Spiritual and that I usually go to great lengths to avoid it.” — Stephen Adly Guirgis Copy Share Image
“JUDGE LITTLEFIELD: Good. Now, when I come to court dressed as Ethel Merman in a one-piece bathing suit, that’ll be my signal to you… — Stephen Adly Guirgis Copy Share Image
I had just done something in TV, but my real love is theater. I had won this award and I was up at Yale,… — Stephen Adly Guirgis Copy Share Image
“CUNNINGHAM:—Your Honor, I cite the Beatitudes, and Kierkegaard. I cite Christ on the Cross! JUDGE LITTLEFIELD: I cite my foot in your ass, Cunningham!” — Stephen Adly Guirgis Copy Share Image
I've lived with women, loved women, lost women. They've loved me, lost me, whatever. — Stephen Adly Guirgis Copy Share Image
“MARY MAGDALENE: I also knew Judas Iscariot very well. SAINT MONICA: Gangsta!” — Stephen Adly Guirgis Copy Share Image
“Do you know who W.H. Auden was, Mr. Iscariot? W.H. Auden was a poet who once said, “God may reduce you on Judgement Day… — Stephen Adly Guirgis Copy Share Image
“JUDGE LITTLEFIELD: What’s your name, Bailiff?! BAILIFF: Julius of Outer Mongolia.” — Stephen Adly Guirgis Copy Share Image
“Thomas Merton wrote, “there is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.” There is always an enormous temptation… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Secularity is a way of being dependent on the responses of our milieu. The secular or false self is the self which is fabricated,… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
“Thomas Merton, the American monk, pointed out that we may spend our whole life climbing the ladder of success, only to find when we… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. —Journal of Thomas Merton” — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“A Prayer by Thomas Merton My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of… — Kevin O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Thomas Merton says, “Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I… — Karen Swallow Prior Copy Share Image
“My friend’s experience reminded me that the search for a perfect religious community is a futile one. As the Trappist monk Thomas Merton wrote… — James Martin Copy Share Image
I was worried before I saw the play 'The Seven Storey Mountain', thinking I don't really want to see a play about Thomas Merton.… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
“Thomas Merton says, “We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
“In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his… — Tai Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Thomas Merton speaks plainly and honestly when he writes, “We learn to live by living together with others, and by living like them—a process… — Richard Plass Copy Share Image
