Favorites Quote's
Author
Topic's
Blog
Our Idea Of God Tells Us More About Ourselves Than About Him.
-Thomas Merton
Please Wait....
Translating....
Select Image
Download as Image
English
Spanish
French
German
Hindi
Chinese
Our Idea Of God Tells Us More
Thomas Merton
Our Idea Of God Tells Us More About Ourselves Than About Him.
Views: 2
Topic
Wisdom
Ideas
More From Thomas Merton
If It So Happened That I Had Once Written A Best-seller, This Was A Pure Accident, Due To Inattention And Naivete, And I Would Take Very Good Care Never To Do The Same Again. If I Had A Message For My Contemporaries, I Said, It Was Surely This: Be Anything You Like, Be Madmen, Drunks, And Bastards Of Every Shape And Form, But At All Costs Avoid One Thing: Success.
Cost
Care
Shapes
In Order To Find God In Ourselves, We Must Stop Looking At Ourselves, Stop Checking And Verifying Ourselves In The Mirror Of Our Own Futility, And Be Content To Be In Him And To Do Whatever He Wills, According To Our Limitations, Judging Our Acts Not In The Light Of Our Own Illusions, But In The Light Of His Reality Which Is All Around Us In The Things And People We Live With.
Reality
Mirrors
Light
There Is A Subtle But Inescapable Connection Between The "sacred" Attitude And The Acceptance Of One's In Most Self.
Attitude
Acceptance
Self
The Evil In The World Is All Of Our Own Making, And It Proceeds Entirely From Our Ruthless, Senseless, Wasteful, Destructive, And Suicidal Neglect Of Our Own Being.
Suicidal
Evil
World
His Justice Is The Love That Gives To Each One Of His Creatures The Gifts That His Mercy Has Previously Decreed. And His Mercy Is His Love, Doing Justice To Its Own Exigencies, And Renewing The Gift Which We Had Failed To Accept.
Wisdom
Giving
Justice
Trending Author
Romeo LeBlanc
Hilary Rosen
Herman Cain
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Tina St. John
Rick Derringer
Quotes by Topics
Action
Attention
Believe
Blessing
Desire
Dream
Ends
Fear
Fun
God
Grief
Hard Work
Hate
Life
Leave Me Alone
Men
Mind
Moving
Opportunity
Philosophy
Positive
Religious
Strong
Thinking
Want
Category