Greater Quote by Thomas Merton Download Open image “When we are strong, we are always much greater than the things that happen to us.” — Thomas Merton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Greater Happens Inspirational Love Strength Strong
Everything that has ever happened to us is there to make us stronger. — John Trudell Copy Share Image
If there's one thing in life that I've learned so far, it's that we're all a little stronger than we think we are. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When we feel ourselves very weak, life will look immensely powerful and ruthless! The extent of our power is the key factor in determining… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“True strength lies not in the stability of our surroundings, but in the unwavering belief in our ability to rise above adversity and soar.” — Shree Shambav Copy Share Image
Sometimes we have to prove to others we're strong even where we're not. — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image
We never really know how strong we are until when being strong is the only choice we have. — Anurag Prakash Ray 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
Eternal Trinity... mystery deep as the sea, You could give me no greater gift than the gift of Yourself. For You are a fire… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Our young Marines of today are courageous, willing to make sacrifices, and are marvelous team players. I am confident our Corps, and indeed our… — James T. Conway Copy Share Image
Life takes hold of us with strong hands and makes us greater than we thought. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is a different ball of wax. I've been trying to say for I don't know how many months now that the traditional… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
I think that as a writer your responsibility is to search for and stir up the things that are in this world. There is… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
In the end theologians are jealous of science, for they are aware that it has greater authority than do their own ways of finding… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
