Quote by Thomas Merton Download Open image ““Go into the desert not to escape other men but in order to find them in God.”” — Thomas Merton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“Not only did Jesus purposefully enter the wilderness on a regular basis but historically, God seems to prefer meeting with man in these desert… — Amy Layne Litzelman Copy Share Image
“Shall I run back into the desert ... and stay there until the devil has passed out of me and I am fit to… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“They say a man lost in the desert must take such water as he is offered, no matter who it comes from. I” — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“A man lost in the desert must take such water as he is offered, no matter who it comes from.” — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“...we all have our own deserts. Thet may not be the same as my desert, but we all have to cross them to find… — Yeonmi Park Copy Share Image
“Just because you wander in the desert, it does not mean there is a promised land.” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“...nobody ever takes from the desert anything but aridity and monsters...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“I stand up. Stretch my arms out wide to the empty horizon. Do not be afraid of limitless possibilities. The desert is infinite to… — Cathy Ostlere Copy Share Image
“Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep, inexpressible certitude… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
If nothing that can be seen can either be God or represent Him to us as He is, then to find God we must… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. For the beginning of humility is… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
We are not perfectly free until we live in pure hope. For when our hope is pure, it no longer trusts exclusively in human… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The desire to kill is like the desire to attack another with an ingot of red -hot iron: I have to pick up the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
To enter into the realm of contemplation one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance to a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The mission of Christian humility in social life is not merely to edify, but to keep minds open to many alternatives. The rigidity of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Peace cannot be built on exclusivism, absolutism, and intolerance. But neither can it be built on vague liberal slogans and pious programs gestated in… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Things that are good are good, and if one is responding to that goodness one is in contact with a truth from which one… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“The wisdom of the flesh is a judgement that the ordinary ends of our natural appetites are the goods to which the whole of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
