If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.
Quote by Thomas Merton
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If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.
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Thomas Merton Quotes
- We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.
- If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.
- Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.
- The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.
- October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.
- Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
- Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.
- Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
- The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.
- By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
Best Quotes
- Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.
- A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.
- I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.
- A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
- I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
- Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
- Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
- When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
- Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.