Divine Quote by Thomas Merton Download Open image “While some men see ordinary happenings, others see divine light and guidance.” — Thomas Merton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Divine Divine light Guidance Happenings Light Men Ordinary Spiritual
There is a spiritual godliness that drifts naturally through the affairs of man, but it is visible only if actions are undertaken and performed… — Stuart Wilde Copy Share Image
Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive. — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it. — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
God created the visible world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings; the latter obscures them. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one's Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded. — Ramana Maharshi 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
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Like many other scientists who hold the Catholic faith, I see the Creator's plan and purpose fulfilled in our universe. I see a planet… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
I take the seashell from my jeans pocket and rub my fingers across its silken, indented surface, shallow as my own open hand. This… — Katrina Kenison Copy Share Image
Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and… — Guy Murchie Copy Share Image
Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be true, your subconscious mind will accept and bring to pass. Believe in good fortune, divine… — Joseph Murphy Copy Share Image
In recent years my understanding of God had evolved into increasingly remote abstractions. I'd come to think of God in terms like Divine Reality,… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea… — John Green Copy Share Image
Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Evil may mar the divine image and cloud its brilliance, but it cannot destroy it. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe,--human or divine. A law is not law without coercion behind it. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Silence tells the seeker in us to love, to love himself. It tells us it is wrong to hate ourselves because of our imperfections.… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
