Technology is not in itself opposed to spirituality and religion. But it creates a great temptation. —Thomas Merton More about this quote Tags: technology spirituality religion temptation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations from Thomas Merton Love is all fire; and so heaven and hell are the same place. —Thomas Merton More about this quote Tags: love fire hell heaven Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email God [is] hidden within me. I find Him by hiding in the silence in which He is concealed. —Thomas Merton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The silence of the forest is my bride and the sweet dark warmth of the whole world is my love, and out of the heart of that dark warmth comes the secret that is heard only in silence, but it is the root of all the secrets that are whispered by all the lovers in their beds all over the world. —Thomas Merton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Teenagers have no monopoly on [adolescent behavior], except insofar as we are in fact a teenage society — a society that likes to play "chicken" not with fast cars, but with ballistic missiles. —Thomas Merton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Why do monks live in seclusion? That is asking why does a scientist work in a laboratory, or why does a sailor go on a ship or why does a duck swim in water. Why does a man go to his bedroom and get in bed when he wants to go to sleep? Why doesn't he lie down in the middle of the street? A monk seeks silence and solitude because there his mind and heart can relax and expand and attain to a new perspective: there too he can hear the Word of God. . . . An apt saying of the Muslim Sufis comes to mind here: "The hen does not lay eggs in the marketplace. —Thomas Merton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love is all fire; and so heaven and hell are the same place. —Thomas Merton More about this quote Tags: love fire hell heaven Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
God [is] hidden within me. I find Him by hiding in the silence in which He is concealed. —Thomas Merton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The silence of the forest is my bride and the sweet dark warmth of the whole world is my love, and out of the heart of that dark warmth comes the secret that is heard only in silence, but it is the root of all the secrets that are whispered by all the lovers in their beds all over the world. —Thomas Merton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Teenagers have no monopoly on [adolescent behavior], except insofar as we are in fact a teenage society — a society that likes to play "chicken" not with fast cars, but with ballistic missiles. —Thomas Merton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Why do monks live in seclusion? That is asking why does a scientist work in a laboratory, or why does a sailor go on a ship or why does a duck swim in water. Why does a man go to his bedroom and get in bed when he wants to go to sleep? Why doesn't he lie down in the middle of the street? A monk seeks silence and solitude because there his mind and heart can relax and expand and attain to a new perspective: there too he can hear the Word of God. . . . An apt saying of the Muslim Sufis comes to mind here: "The hen does not lay eggs in the marketplace. —Thomas Merton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “temptation” Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it. —W. Somerset Maugham More about this quote Tags: temptation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred. —W. N. Taylor More about this quote Tags: temptation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. —T. S. Eliot More about this quote Tags: temptation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph? —Robert Browning More about this quote Tags: temptation triumph Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself. —Oscar Wilde More about this quote Tags: temptation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it. —W. Somerset Maugham More about this quote Tags: temptation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred. —W. N. Taylor More about this quote Tags: temptation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. —T. S. Eliot More about this quote Tags: temptation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph? —Robert Browning More about this quote Tags: temptation triumph Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself. —Oscar Wilde More about this quote Tags: temptation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
