Education Quote by Thomas Merton Download Open image ““THE MONASTERY IS A SCHOOL—A SCHOOL IN WHICH WE learn from God how to be happy.”” — Thomas Merton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Education
“the monastery is not a place to hide from problems; it is a place to face them, whether they are personal sin, human brokenness,… — Carrie Gress Copy Share Image
“For two years I’ve been a monk but the only monastery I’ve lived in is my own mind.” — Bhiksus Heng Sure, Heng Ch’au Copy Share Image
“Monasticism resonated with me, with my imperfect, impulsive self, because it encompasses all human activity and asks that the disparate parts and moments of… — Paul Wilkes Copy Share Image
“Your heart is the temple of God, and your church is a sanctuary. Your school is the temple of knowledge, and your teacher is… — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“A good monk would know that contentment is easier to attain than happiness, and that it is enough.” — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
“if monasteries accepted the irreligious and permitted abstention from prayer, I'd become a monk.” — Henri Troyat Copy Share Image
“Despite attending a nominally Christian school, I had not yet been inside a church—and I wasn't about to dare the deed now. I knew… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Justice is the only worship. Love is the only priest. Ignorance is the only slavery. Happiness is the only good. The time to be… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“I you ask me about the monks, I speak from experience, not prejudice, and though I have no doubt that some foundations are well… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Monastic communities are to the great social community what the mistletoe is to the oak, what the wart is to the human body.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“I learned I didn't matter from the very same place that lifted me up, the place I'd found my center and voice: school. And… — Patrisse Khan-Cullors Copy Share Image
“Happiness is the only good, reason the only torch, justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest.” — Robert G. Ingersoll 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 put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“What's the best thing about being in college? Good teachers. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“If one has not a head of steel it will burst; if he has not within it a brain of liquid quicksilver, he will… — Ioannes Amos Commenius Copy Share Image
“let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by” — H.D. (Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I only began to enjoy studying after I got through the educational system and became a so-called member of society. If something interested me,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
How wonderful it would be, I thought, if only we could practice the teachings of the Buddha as he really taught them from his… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Copy Share Image
