Catholic Quote by Thomas Merton Download Open image “I can only become perfectly free by serving the will of God.” — Thomas Merton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Catholic Freedom Gods will I can Inspirational Love Serving
The only thing that can free you is the belief that you can be free. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
If you want to be free, just start doing what God wants you to do, one step at a time, and you'll eventually walk… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
You can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom becomes a harness to you, and when you cease to speak of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can be free only to the extent that others are forbidden to profit from their physical, economic, or other superiority to the detriment… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
As free as you allow others to be, such freedom you create for yourself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward… — Simone de Beauvoir 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 of the contemplative experience awakens a tragic anguish and opens many questions in the depths of the heart like wounds that cannot stop bleeding. For every gain in deep certitude there is a corresponding growth of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share
If nothing that can be seen can either be God or represent Him to us as He is, then to find God we must pass beyond everything that can be seen and enter into darkness. Since nothing that can be heard is God, to find Him we must enter into silence. Since God cannot be imagined, anything our imagination tells… — Thomas Merton Copy Share
It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. For the beginning of humility is the beginning of blessedness and the consummation of humility is the perfection of all joy. Humility contains in itself the answer to all the great problems of the life of the soul. It is the only… — Thomas Merton Copy Share
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
I am a practicing Catholic, but my lineage is Jewish, so if someone asks me if I'm Jewish, I say yes. — Neve Campbell Copy Share Image
I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The young man [Turgot] destined for an ecclesiastical career was placed within walls carefully designed to keep out all currents of new thought; his studies, his reading, his professors, his associates, all were combined to keep from him any results of observation or reflection save those prescribed: probably, of all means for stifling healthy and helpful thought, a theological seminary,… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share
Like many other scientists who hold the Catholic faith, I see the Creator's plan and purpose fulfilled in our universe. I see a planet… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
I'm the daughter of a Kenyan Catholic father and a Mauritian Hindu mother, and I have a Jewish husband who was born in South… — Suella Braverman Copy Share Image
The reason I went to an all-boys Catholic school was because they had the best football team. We won the state championship my junior… — Theo Rossi Copy Share Image
Girded with faith and the performance of good works, let us follow in his [Jesus] paths by the guidance of the Gospel. — Benedict of Nursia Copy Share Image
I think being raised within a Mexican Catholic family made magical realism a very natural part of who I am as a person and as a writer. My parents always told us great stories that often had magical elements and roots within Mexican folklore. Also, I remember my father reading a book to me, when I was very young, about… — Daniel Olivas Copy Share
Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
You know, I was the class clown in Catholic school, but I never thought I would make a living out of it! — Sofia Vergara Copy Share Image
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