Inspirational Quote by Thomas Merton Download Open image “Here is an unspeakable secret: paradise is all around us and we do not understand.” — Thomas Merton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Inspirational Love Paradise Secret Unspeakable
We do not understand that life is paradise, for it suffices only to wish to understand it, and at once paradise will appear in… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Paradise is hidden in each one of use, it is concealed within me too, right now, and if I wish, it will come for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Paradise is not somewhere else... it is within you. And it is not in some other time, after death... It is in you right… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It's a paradise that we are going to go into, because to be in the presence of God itself will be a paradise. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
The problem with paradise is that it's temporary: You don't belong here and the neighbors are nobody you care to know, so it's only… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Paradise is here or nowhere: you must take your joy with you or you will never find it. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“Paradise” is a suffering word, grossly overused and ineptly devalued in everyday hype and blurb. Yet, tired as it is, it will have to… — Andrew Rayner Copy Share Image
Paradise is not something unique; there are so many paradises in the universe; Earth is one of them! — Mehmet Murat Ildan 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
We talk to God--that is prayer; God talks to us--that is inspiration. — H. Emilie Cady Copy Share Image
You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just understand that the good that you want is already here. All you have to do is get in harmony with it. And you… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
