God Quote by Thomas Merton Download Open image “Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.” — Thomas Merton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare God Ideas Wisdom
“So much depends on our idea of God! Yet no idea of Him, however pure and perfect, is adequate to express Him as He… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
God understands that part of us which is more than what we think we are. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we don’t think about God, everything ends up being about 'me' and my own comfort. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
we unwittingly project onto God our own attitudes and feelings toward ourselves... But we cannot assume that He feels about us the way we… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
God understands. And God understands that part of us which is more than we think we are. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
What God knows about me is more important than what others think about me. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What we think about God-what we think God is like-will determine the relationship we have with God. — James Bryan Smith Copy Share Image
“Often what we believe about God says more about us than it does about God. Our theology is like a mirror to the soul.… — John Mark Comer Copy Share Image
The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God. — Baruch Spinoza 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 drink much anymore, but when I traveled with Frank Sinatra, God rest his soul, I used to drink like I could do… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
“God hates Hell. He hates the idea of people going there. He hates it so much that He was willing to take on human… — Evan Minton Copy Share Image
“am not suggesting that successes in academics, athletics, or vocation somehow stand outside God’s good plan. Learning and play are joys that God himself… — Timothy Paul Jones Copy Share Image
I pray that wherever we are and whatever duties we have in the priesthood of God, we will be united in the cause to… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
A lot of people have been saying 'The 100' reminds them of 'Lord Of The Flies,' 'Lost' and 'Battlestar Galactica,' and all of those… — Marie Avgeropoulos Copy Share Image
As we are coming to the end of the year, I want you to forget about the past, the failure, the negative thoughts or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wonder: when a Jehovah's Witness dies and goes to Heaven, does God hide behind the door and pretend He's not home? — Brian Celio Copy Share Image
