"A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying [God]. It â€œconsents,â€ so to speak, to [God's] creative love. It is expressing an idea which is in God and which is not distinct from the essence of God, and therefore a tree imitates God by being a tree"

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Thomas Merton

#Wisdom Quotes #Mean Quotes #Essence Quotes

“We are all racing towards death. No matter how many great, intellectual conclusions we draw during our lives, we know they're all only man-made, like God. I begin to wonder where it all leads. What can you do, except do what you can do as best you know how.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“When you feel small and weak, remind yourself that you are a child of the universe who is connected to the infinite source.”

Source : "Desiderata" (1927)
“Reading is the last act of secular prayer.”
“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”

Source : Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group
“Ben Bova seems to work very hard at working in new discoveries into his Glum Future but alas, his future is glum and not that well written.”

Source : Usenet article, 2005.
“There's a culture in orphanages that children are eager to escape from, and it's a culture of being reared as a group and not being doted upon by parents. For any child, that's the bottom line. The fact is that a human child wants that mommy or daddy or both.”

Source : Source: www.cnn.com
“Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.”
“The collapse of the global marketplace would be a traumatic event with unimaginable consequences. Yet I find it easier to imagine than the continuation of the present regime.”

Source : George Soros (1995). “Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve”, Wiley

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