Thomas Merton Saint Quotes

#1. When Rydstrom shut the door, Cade stared at it for long moments.
At length, he turned for the steps. "Fuckall," he said on a stunned breath. "Does this mean I'm no longer the bad brother ... ?

Kresley Cole

#2. People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger than the whole of hell.

Thomas Merton

#3. Nature's old felicities.

William Wordsworth

#4. To be a saint is to be yourself.

Thomas Merton

#5. Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.

Aga Khan IV

#6. For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.

Thomas Merton

#7. I always sang when I was little and my father, who was a great influence on me, also had a wonderful voice. He and my mother really encouraged me to sing and play the piano. They were always very supportive.

Judy Collins

#8. To change the media, you're gonna have to totally throw out every journalism school and get rid of everybody in every newsroom, and then you're gonna have to change the grade school and middle school and high school curriculum.

Rush Limbaugh

#9. What do you want to want to be, anyway?"
"I don't know; I guess what I want to be is a good Catholic."
"What you should say"
he told me
"what you should say is that you want to be a saint.

Thomas Merton

#10. As long as I continue to take myself seriously, how can I consider myself a saint? How can I consider myself a contemplative? For the self I bother about does not really exist, never will, never did except in my own imagination.

Thomas Merton

#11. I wouldn't be writing songs if I didn't have something to say.

Cat Stevens

#12. It's very, very difficult because we're living in a world where they invent things in order to hide things from parents. There are these secret creator app guys who make things to intentionally do that, to keep your parents in the dark, and you've really got to work extra-hard to stay on top of it.

Christian Slater