Thought of the day 12-06-17
Piety is a disposition of the heart due to merciful tenderness.
Book: The Silent Life, by Thomas Merton.
Piety is a disposition of the heart due to merciful tenderness.
Book: The Silent Life, by Thomas Merton.
Through piety, we will serve God.
Book: The Silent Life, by Thomas Merton.
Through justice we will help our brothers and sisters.
Book: The Silent Life, by Thomas Merton.
By means of temperance we will have to take care of ourselves.
Book: The Silent Life, by Thomas Merton.
Temperance teaches us not only to keep silence, but to speak at the right time.
Book: The Silent Life, by Thomas …
Humanity was created under the order of perfect charity.
Book: The Silent Life, by Thomas Merton.
The heart is silent when purified of vain or bad thoughts.
Book: The Silent Life, by Thomas Merton.
The body remains silent when it abandons useless or harmful actions.
Book: The Silent Life, by Thomas Merton.
The tongue becomes silent when it renounces superfluous or perverse speech.
Book: The Silent Life, by Thomas Merton.
The union of silence and meditation provides a great rest for the soul.
Book: The Silent Life, by Thomas Merton.
The best way to reach inner silence is to preserve outer silence.
Book: The Silent Life, by Thomas Merton.
It is in the silent soul that wisdom establishes its abode forever.
Book: The Silent Life, by Thomas Merton.
Your only good is the life of the Spirit, infinite, eternal and immutable.
Thoughts adapted from the book: “Path Without Shadows” …
Free yourself of attachments, one by one or, if you can, all at once.
Thoughts adapted from the book: “Path Without …
Set free the light that exists within you, realizing the Law in yourself.
Thoughts adapted from the book: “Path Without Shadows” …