Distraction Quote by Thomas Merton Download Open image “If you have never had any distractions you don't know how to pray.” — Thomas Merton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Distraction Ifs Know how Knows Prayer Praying
See that you do not use the trick of prayer to cover up what you know you ought to do. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Begin to realize more and more that prayer is the most important thing you do. You can use your time to no better advantage… — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
One of the experiences of prayer is that it seems that nothing happens. But when you start with it and look back over a… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Focus on the moment, not when you are praying with your intellect, but when you are fully experiencing the prayer — Masami Saionji Copy Share Image
Prayer causes things to happen that wouldn't happen if you didn't pray. — John Piper Copy Share Image
Prayer is hard work. We may neglect it because we're too tired, too busy, or too distracted to put into prayer the effort required. — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image
If I forget to pray, I can't get through the day without snapping at people. — Mr. T Copy Share Image
You don't know how to pray? Put yourself in the presence of God, and as soon as you have said, 'Lord, I don't know… — Josemaria Escriva 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
I don't think there's a direct correlation between my sexuality and my skiing ability. But I think because I was so concerned about it… — Gus Kenworthy Copy Share Image
I don't want this to be a distraction. This has been distracting enough. I'm not going to rehash this going forward. I'm sure other… — Jayson Werth Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time loathing the sentences that I put down on the page. Once I'm past that phase, it doesn't really… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
To really be of benefit to others as the Buddha always taught, we ourselves must first get out of the swamp. One of the… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does not denounce;… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction...What matters is that one be for a time inwardly… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
You have a number of choices. You could continue to always fight against people who are really distractions. They're people in the cheap seats… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
I feel very privileged to get to read and write and not to have to do things that I don't like, and I don't… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts; distraction of mind is a sign of its weakness; by constant… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Some days, who can stare at swathes of sky, leafage and bad-complected whale-gray streets, tailpipes and smokestacks orating sepia exhaust, or the smaller enthusiasms… — W. S. Di Piero Copy Share Image
“the problem with reading off a screen isn’t resolution, eyestrain, or compatibility with reading in the bathtub: it’s that computers are seductive, they tempt… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
