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All theology is a kind of birthdayEach one who is born Comes into the world as a questionFor which old answersAre not sufficient-¦

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

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  1. Jesus lived and died in vain if He did not teach us to regulate the whole of life by the eternal law of love. Gandhi, quoted in Merton, p. 38 – Thomas Merton
  2. Into this world, this demented innin which there is absolutely no room for him at all,Christ comes uninvited. – Thomas Merton
  3. I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one’s income is ever quite sufficient, you know). – Anthony Hope
  4. Theology is the systematic inquiry into Scripture. Theology is a human attempt to make sense of and draw conclusions from God’s special revelation. – Perry G Downs
  5. Cosmopolitan theology is a theology for _the impossible_. – Namsoon Kang
  6. Theology without proclamation is empty, proclamation without theology is blind. – Gerhard Ebeling
  7. You were born to dream. You were born to strive. You were born to conquer. You were born to rise. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  8. Born to love, Born to lead.Born to shine, Born to succeed. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  9. 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
  10. Art enables us to find ourselves and loose ourselves at the same time. – Thomas Merton
  11. Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. – Thomas Merton
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little. – Thomas Merton
  15. The deepest need of our darkness is to comprehend the light which shines in the midst of it. – Thomas Merton
  16. 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
  17. But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question. – Thomas Merton
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. In the end, no one can seek God unless he has already begun to find him. – Thomas Merton
  21. Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist. – Thomas Merton
  22. 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
  23. My mother was informing me, by mail, that she was about to die, and would never see me again. – Thomas Merton
  24. The deepest of level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless … beyond speech … beyond concept. – Thomas Merton
  25. I believe theology should be about one’s way of life, a kind of gaze into onesself and others, and a mode of one’s profound existence in the world. – Namsoon Kang
  26. Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. – Anas Nin
  27. Security comes from Trust.Trust comes from Faith.Faith comes when you eliminate all fear.Ease comes when you are fearless. – Brownell Landrum
  28. If a single man achieves the highest kind of love, it will be sufficient to neutralize the hate of millions. – Mahatma Gandhi
  29. To so many people, the Lord is in danger of being no more than a patron saint of our systematic theology instead of the Christ Who is our life. – W Ian Thomas
  30. Some of us are born to Run. Some of us are born to Climb. But we are all born to Live. – Saim A Cheeda
  31. We are not born into the world. We are born into something that we make into the world. – Michael Talbot
  32. Knowledge comes from learning – Ignorance is born from not wanting to know the difference! – Robbie Thomas
  33. Knowledge comes from leaning – Ignorance is born from not wanting to know the difference! – Robbie Thomas
  34. The world teaches us to be self-sufficient, self-reliant, self-motivating. But anytime we put self before Savior, we’re in trouble – Toni Sorenson
  35. There are sufficient resources in the world for the needs of everybody, but not enough for the greed of even a significant minority. – Millard Fuller
  36. You will never win anyone through pity. You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult kind of magic: illusion born from disillusion. – Sylvia Plath
  37. You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult kind of magic: illusion born from disillusion. – Sylvia Plath
  38. The idea of formulated ‘rights … comes not from John Locke and Thomas Jefferson … but from the canon law of the Catholic Church. – Thomas E Woods Jr
  39. Most institutions demand unqualified faith but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue. – Robert K Merton
  40. Being kind to someone, only to look kind to others, defeats the purpose of being kind. – Shannon L Alder

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