Quotes about Wisdom
THE MONASTERY IS A SCHOOL—A SCHOOL IN WHICH WE learn from God how to be happy.
— Thomas Merton
Life is not attained by reasoning and analysis but first of all by living.
— Thomas Merton
Humility is a virtue, not a neurosis.
— Thomas Merton
The wisdom of the flesh is a judgement that the ordinary ends of our natural appetites are the goods to which the whole of man's life are to be ordered. Therefore it inevitably inclines the will to violate God's law.
— Thomas Merton
Discretion tells us what God wants of us and what He does not want of us.
— Thomas Merton
Jesus, I put myself in Your hands. I rest in Your wisdom that has arranged all things for me. I promise to stop jumping out of Your arms to try and walk on my own feet, forgetting that I am no longer on the ground or near it!
— Thomas Merton
If our life is poured out in useless words, we will never hear anything, will never become anything, and in the end, because have said everything before we had anything to say, we shall be left speechless at the moment of our greatest decision.
— Thomas Merton
Gerçek anlamda derin düÅŸünme; psikolojik bir hile deÄŸil, teolojik bir lütuftur.
— Thomas Merton
To know when to stop To know when you can get no further By your own action, This is the right beginning!
— Thomas Merton
The greatest politeness is free of all formality. Perfect conduct Is free of concern. Perfect wisdom is unplanned. Perfect love is without demonstrations. Perfect sincerity offers No guarantee.
— Thomas Merton
That is precisely why you will miss all the deepest meaning of Shakespeare, Dante, and the rest if you reduce their vital and creative statements about life and men to the dry, matter-of-fact terms of history, or ethics, or some other science. They belong to a different order.
— Thomas Merton
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of heaven. And
— Thomas Merton