Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
Quote by Thomas Merton
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Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
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Thomas Merton Quotes
- The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.
- 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.
- Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
- 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.
- When ambition ends, happiness begins.
- Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.
- If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.
- 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.
- 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.
- The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.
Best Quotes
- Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
- No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
- I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.
- If we try to give smile to others, unknowingly it comes back to our face.
- It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
- Sociophobia kills someone's confidence, there are a lot of fear apart from sociophobia that kills someone's personality.
- The connection between dress and war is not far to seek your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
- Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.
- Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.
- Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.