The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.
– Thomas Merton
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- The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
- I wish to resist the temptation to kiss…By super magic animals (Song: The Temptation)A visual poem about unfulfilled love… – Super magic animals
- Temptation is not a sin. It is the yielding that is sin. All temptation is from the devil. – Billy Graham
- Don’t settle. If you settle, you already know it’s below your standards. You are entitled to the best this life has to offer. – Karen A Baquiran
- Art enables us to find ourselves and loose ourselves at the same time. – Thomas Merton
- Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. – Thomas Merton
- When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your work well. – Thomas Merton
- For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God’s will, to be what God wants us to be. – Thomas Merton
- We do not want to be beginners [at prayer]. but let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything but beginners, all our life! – Thomas Merton
- The deepest need of our darkness is to comprehend the light which shines in the midst of it. – Thomas Merton
- I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not ask of me. – Thomas Merton
- But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question. – Thomas Merton
- The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them. – Thomas Merton
- The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods. – Thomas Merton
- In the end, no one can seek God unless he has already begun to find him. – Thomas Merton
- All theology is a kind of birthdayEach one who is born Comes into the world as a questionFor which old answersAre not sufficient-¦ – Thomas Merton
- Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist. – Thomas Merton
- Into this world, this demented innin which there is absolutely no room for him at all,Christ comes uninvited. – Thomas Merton
- Be still:There is no longer any need of comment.It was a lucky windThat blew away his halo with his cares,A lucky sea that drowned his reputation. – Thomas Merton
- My mother was informing me, by mail, that she was about to die, and would never see me again. – Thomas Merton
- The deepest of level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless … beyond speech … beyond concept. – Thomas Merton
- My biggest fear, even now, is that I will hear Jesus’ words and walk away, content to settle for less than radical obedience to Him. – David Platt
- My biggest fear is forgetting why I fell in love with writing. My biggest dream is never allowing that to happen. – Rudy Francisco
- God can turn your biggest flaws into your biggest cause. – Mandy Hale
- In my personal life, especially as I am aging, I find that the biggest mistakes I make and the biggest risks I run all result form mindless hurrying. – Edgar H Schein
- i am not an angel ,and i don’t want to be an angel.I Born as a Human and and my Biggest Task to keep my self Just a Human. – Mohammed Zaki Ansari
- The biggest challenge for human mind is human mind. – Raheel Farooq
- Human affinity to human weakness surpasses human affinity to human strength – Prabhukrishna M
- A human is just a human, but a human together with God is a super-human – Sunday Adelaja
- I could settle for being a man, or I could struggle to become a human being. – Robert Jensen
- Most institutions demand unqualified faith but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue. – Robert K Merton
- When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation. – Elizabeth Kostova
- There is nothing wrong with you being tempted, the important thing is that you do not fall for the temptation – Sunday Adelaja
- Keep watch and pray, so that you will not give in to temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak. – Anonymous
- Temptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt. Prayer makes it weaker. – Toba Beta
- If you are facing some kind of temptation, remember that it is within your power to get the victory over it. – Sunday Adelaja
- Always resist the temptation to forget the painful parts of your past. – Runescape
- No credit–no debt. Credit leads a man into temptation. Cash down is the only thing that will deliver him from evil. – Solomon Northup
- The problem with temptation is that you may not get another chance. – Laurence J Peter