Epiphany Quote by Thomas Merton Download Open image “Love is the epiphany of God in our poverty.” — Thomas Merton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Epiphany God Inspirational Love Love is Poverty
The mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of and belief… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Love everybody, love for all. Love conquers a lot of things. Even those who hate you, love them. I believe that when you love… — Young Dovey Copy Share Image
“Love makes us wake up in the morning with a sense of purpose and a flow of creative ideas. Love floods our nervous system… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Love is the only wealth that man absolutely needs. Love is the only wealth that God precisely is. — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
“Love is everything, love is God in us. Love what you do, those you do it for, love others and yourself. Love is the… — Val Uchendu Copy Share Image
“Love is the very essence of life. It is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Yet it is not found only at the end of the rainbow. Love is at the beginning also, and from it springs the beauty that arched across the sky on a stormy day. Love is the security for which children weep,… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share
“Your true love for God is demonstrated through your ability to hold onto your faithfulness in the midst of Prosperity and Poverty, Happiness and… — Israelmore Ayivor 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 was 12 when I was on stage for the first time and had an epiphany that this is what I wanted to do. — Mithila Palkar Copy Share Image
[On Cantor's work:] The finest product of mathematical genius and one of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity. — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
So if there was a way that I knew something about my character's desires or the things that they were resisting because I was… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
“I had an epiphany a few years ago when I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends.” — Moby Copy Share
Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Very often in mathematics the crucial problem is to recognize and discover what are the relevant concepts; once this is accomplished the job may… — Israel Nathan Herstein Copy Share Image
I can't relate to the idea of suicide. I guess I'm just one of those people that is always optimistic and upbeat. But one day, I sat down. I said 'You know what? Just to kind of purge myself, I want to see what its like to feel that low'. So I decided to write a suicide note. Yeah, just… — Dane Cook Copy Share
“To be human is nothing less than to be caught in the great congested pilgrimage of existence and to join ourselves freely to it… — Eugene Kennedy Copy Share Image
The rarity is the sudden epiphany or single turning point showing you with dramatic clarity that your marriage is over, although that does happen.… — Laura Wasser Copy Share Image
the feminine journey is a story unfolding, and its epiphanies come through real things, through tangibles like walking sticks and dreams and deer antlers--all… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“The scene sucker-punched Max. He never saw it coming. It encapsulated in one poignant instant the tragic beauty of his family history.” — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image